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  • noun Plural form of exclaim.

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Examples

  • Creature's future mate and then quitting him abruptly, Frankenstein exclaims, "All again was silent; but his words rung in my ears" (125).

    Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005

  • Anakin exclaims that "Gosh, we could wander around for years and never find Melgor!"

    Why We Need A New Star Wars Holiday Special 2005

  • Baldwin exclaims in the words of the psalmist, persequitur unus ex nobis centum alienos.] 83 Villehardouin (No. 130) is again ignorant of the authors of this more legitimate fire, which is ascribed by Gunther to a quidam comes Teutonicus, (c.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Across the country, they have carried a sea of signs held high, on every one of which a single bold word exclaims: CHANGE!

    The Democratic Daily Hank Edson 2008

  • An eloquent philosopher, depicting the deplorable results that would follow, if some future materialist were "to succeed in displaying to us a mechanical system of the human mind, as comprehensive, intelligible, and satisfactory as the Newtonian mechanism of the heavens," exclaims, "Fallen from their elevation, Art and Science and Virtue would no longer be to man the objects of a genuine and reflective adoration."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • “I was wearing a freaking Catholic school girl’s outfit!” she exclaims, which is of course exactly why everyone else in the universe views it as the hyperdriven exploitation of an unabashed taboo.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • “I was wearing a freaking Catholic school girl’s outfit!” she exclaims, which is of course exactly why everyone else in the universe views it as the hyperdriven exploitation of an unabashed taboo.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • “I was wearing a freaking Catholic school girl’s outfit!” she exclaims, which is of course exactly why everyone else in the universe views it as the hyperdriven exploitation of an unabashed taboo.

    Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

  • Gratiae "exclaims:" Never has there arisen one like to her in our monastery; nor, alas!

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Lubbock, in his essay on the "Duty of Happiness," exclaims: "It is wonderful, indeed, how much innocent happiness we thoughtlessly throw away."

    Chopin and Other Musical Essays Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

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