Excite In A Sentence

Definition of Excite

• I am far from asserting that men will not excite disturbances without just cause.
• Piece of lace which women put over their faces to excite the curiosity of the passers-by.
• I have nothing to excite my distrust of the people, but much to recommend them to my favour.
• It may seem to some to be out of place, and may even excite a sense of the ludicrous.
• When she ran, her flight appeared to excite and enrage it further, for it bawled with anger.
• The fewer he sees, and the fewer voices he hears, the less he will be likely to excite himself.
• Still they have not lost all, when they can excite such sympathy in the mind of England.
• Besides, your sudden departure must appear suspicious, and will probably excite inquiry.
• Put on a cheerful face always, and remember that it pays to excite envy, never to excite pity.
• The details of the attack would convince any one that neither has anything which would now excite reprobation.
• She took off her rags and stood before him squeezing parts of her body attempting to excite him and growing in excitement herself.
• They have more than once served at critical times to excite individuals and whole nations to make sublime efforts.
• The fiery stuff did not excite him; it merely had the effect of keeping him from sinking into unconsciousness of his misery.
• Everyone was devoured with a burning thirst, which the scanty draught of mud seemed to excite rather than allay.
• But to ask for a loan from either of them would excite too much wonder and suspicion; it would at once be reported to her aunt.
• Henley did not wish to excite remark, and subsided into the place appointed for him, when he found that he was not to sit where he chose.
• But the Captain was aware any tenderness to the man whom everyone was reviling would excite suspicion.
• We feared to excite remark or suspicion by descending and leaving our chamber, or else immediate escape was our strongest idea.
• To pause or hesitate would only be to excite suspicion in the mind of this man, sentinel or guard, as he might be.
• It strikes me that God might write a book that would not necessarily excite the laughter of his children.
• He makes her laugh, and asks for nothing either for himself or for others; he cannot excite jealousy, and he meddles in nothing.
• A strange object, a piece of red cloth fluttering in the grass, may excite the interest of a watch-dog or of an antelope.
• Insight and intelligence always excite so much distrust that force alone avails to justify them; then man yields them obedience(96).
• Amante went up to the landlord, and asked permission to leave his inn, doing all openly and humbly, so as to excite neither ill-will nor suspicion.
• This romance of Akbar is, it is true, but a sketch, and is only intended to excite interest in the subject.
• So saying he drew from his quiver two arrows, one of gold, to excite love, and one of lead, to repel it.
• Hence also that peculiar interest which the pranks of our mischievous relatives excite even in spectators not apt to appreciate the comic features of the spectacle.
• If an object is calculated to excite a certain feeling or emotion in the mind, that feeling or emotion will necessarily arise in view of such object.
• There was much in the very forms of mystery and concealment thus adopted calculated to impress the popular imagination, and to excite its reverence and awe.
• Every thing being new to her, and her husband not being with her just at that moment, it need hardly excite our wonder that she tasted the fruit by way of experiment.

• There is nothing to excite the imagination.
• Nothing calculated to excite her was to reach her ears.
• Instead of bestowing influence, they will excite rapacity.
• You mustn't excite yourself.
• But the wine only served to excite his imagination still more.
• This fast was not in the right locality to excite the attention it deserved.
• Don't let it be your fate to excite one of them.
• We should excite suspicion by leaving without paying our bill.
• I should be so sorry to think I had done anything to excite you.
• A pretty matter, forsooth, to excite the ridicule of a Scotchman!