When the Iraqis resume shouting and wailing at you, Hassan translates every exclamation until you tell him to stop.
But I am very good at turning a question mark into an exclamation point.
Other stories unfurl with giggles and exclamation, but really, read Maupin, or see him on tour.
exclamation points by themselves in a message from Helmand meant it could very well be a matter of life and death.
He may be known for the Virgule, but the feeling of his new exhibition more closely resembles an exclamation mark.
That exclamation, of course, removed the supposition entirely.
There was no irreverence in the exclamation that broke from the girl's lips.
The exclamation came from the girl in a note of incredulous astonishment.
But while yet fifty yards distant, Kingozi stopped with an exclamation.
The exclamation was sincere: at this moment she thought as she spoke.
late 14c., from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclamationem (nominative exclamatio), noun of action from past participle stem of exclamare "cry out loud" (see exclaim).
The punctuation symbol known as the exclamation point (1824) or exclamation mark (1926) was earliest called an exclamation note or note of exclamation (1650s), earlier note of admiration (1610s). Another name for it was shriek-mark (1864).
