EXULT in a Sentence

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Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXULT
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exult
 v.  rejoice; feel extreme happiness
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  My Dear Mentor, Please make my adieux to your aunt, and exult within yourself, for 'Lazy Laurence' has gone to his grandpa, like the best of boys.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
2  My dear nurse," said Penelope, "do not exult too confidently over all this.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIII
3  Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Everywhere Carol heard that the war was going to bring a basic change in psychology, to purify and uplift everything from marital relations to national politics, and she tried to exult in it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  And you need not exult over him, good brother of the Southern States; for we have some inklings that many of you, under similar circumstances, would not do much better.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  He wanted to sin with another of his kind, to force another being to sin with him and to exult with her in sin.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  "I knew he'd come," said Martha exultantly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  "I'm getting fatter and fatter every day," she said quite exultantly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  He stretched himself out to his tallest height and he threw out his arms exultantly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  Not beaten yet, she thought exultantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  "The last link," he cried, exultantly.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
14  The news reached Atlanta almost simultaneously with the news of the victory at Chancellorsville, and the town fairly rocked with exultation and with laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  She looked up, and saw Nettie's eyes resting on her with tenderness and exultation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
Example Sentence:
1  We exult when our team won the victory.
2  It's unkind to exult over a person one has beaten in a race.
3  He was so brimful of exultation that he could hardly hold himself.
4  And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
5  He was exulting in a win at the show earlier that day.
6  Certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life.