exhilarate
verb (used with object)
have been exhilarating
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present perfect progressiveof exhilarate.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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McIlroy has rarely done anything conventionally in a career packed with as many bitter lows as there have been exhilarating highs.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Their style has won them plenty of friends and even nerve-shredding defeats by New Zealand in Wellington and Australia at Edgbaston have been exhilarating because of the way England played.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2023
She is known now as the Iron Lady, but as a pretty, naive young pol who cut through cant, prevarication and some very real problems, she must have been exhilarating.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the early days, the halcyon days of optimism, the banging would have been exhilarating to a degree; but the march of events had compelled us to reason better.
From The Siege of Kimberley by T. Phelan
The ice being now strong, they skimmed across rivers and creeks, raising the snow in clouds and “switchbacking” over hummocks in a fashion that under other conditions might have been exhilarating.
From Colorado Jim by George Goodchild
