THRILL in a Sentence

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The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.

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 Meanings and Examples of THRILL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thrill
 v.  feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; tremble as from fear or excitement
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  At last, after two or three hours' fruitless search, he was thinking of turning back in despair, when casting his eyes upwards he saw a sight which sent a thrill of pleasure through his heart.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  She still wanted the physical, sexual thrill she could get with him by her own activity, his little orgasm being over.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  Connie quite liked the life of the mind, and got a great thrill out of it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  To Connie, since she was really outside of it, and since she had grown numb to the thrill of it, it was again nothingness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  And Michaelis, thrilled by his power to thrill, was really wonderful.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  His moment of sheer thrill with the two Chatterleys, when he simply carried Connie and Clifford away, was one of the supreme moments of Michaelis' life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  But the thrill had gone out of it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  It was a subtle deep flattery to him, her genuine thrill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  But Connie did wonder at the genuine thrill which the woman got out of Clifford.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  In truth, the very fact that there could be no love affair left her free to thrill to her very marrow with this other passion, the peculiar passion of knowing, knowing as he knew.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  She walked quickly across the park, not really in the thrill of the assignation, but with a certain anger and rebellion burning in her heart.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
14  And as a matter of fact, I suppose your greatest thrill comes from being able to say a temporary farewell to all this.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  Her father asked him to do them the honour of taking his mutton with them, and Fanny had time for only one thrill of horror, before he declared himself prevented by a prior engagement.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  At such a silent night, the speed and roar of the engine thrill us at first.
2  The excited fan blushed and stammered, her words becoming almost incoherent in the thrill of meeting her favorite rock star face to face.
3  Many people get a vicarious thrill at the movies by imagining they are the characters on the screen.
4  So soft was her step, it failed to make even a sound, and but for the magical thrill imparted by her genial touch, as other unobtrusive beauties, she would have glided away un-perceived--unsought.
5  It gave me a big thrill to meet my favourite author in person.
6  Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
7  It gave Pat a thrill to finally see the group perform live.
8  I can remember the thrill of not knowing what I would get on Christmas morning.
9  Few contests in the recent history of British boxing have been as thrilling.
10  Our wildlife trips offer a thrilling encounter with wildlife in its natural state.
11  The children were captivated by his thrilling story.
12  And then there are other chances in life far more thrilling and rapture-giving: an affair of the actual world, nothing ideal about it: all its associations are solid and sober, and its manifestations are the same.
13  Neymar shed tears of joy after delivering soccer gold medal with the winning penalty in a 5-4 shootout triumph over Germany after a thrilling final ended in a draw following extra-time on Saturday.
14  I now clapped my hands in sudden joy -- my pulse bounded, my vein thrilled.
15  The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose violin performances thrilled millions.