EXULTANT in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of EXULTANT
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exultant
 a.  inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Carol was exultant over this irregular jaunting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  At last an exultant yell went along the quivering line.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  They were yelling, shrill and exultant.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  It was pale and exultant, his eyes shining brightly in the moonlight.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
5  Williamson, the ex-clergyman, bowed to us with mock politeness, and the bully, Woodley, advanced with a shout of brutal and exultant laughter.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
6  And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  "I knew he'd come," said Martha exultantly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  "I'm getting fatter and fatter every day," she said quite exultantly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  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
10  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
11  Not beaten yet, she thought exultantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  "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
13  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
14  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
15  A feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In X
Example Sentence:
1  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.
2  He was so brimful of exultation that he could hardly hold himself.
3  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.
4  He was exulting in a win at the show earlier that day.
5  We exult when our team won the victory.
6  It's unkind to exult over a person one has beaten in a race.