TRIUMPH in a Sentence

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For TRIUMPH, below is one of 219 sentences:
The important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIUMPH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
triumph
 n.  victory; win; expressing great joy
Classic Sentence: (204 in 14 pages)
1  I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Cloaking her triumph, Mammy set down the tray.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Everyone was smoldering, and it would have been a positive triumph for Scarlett, except for Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  However, there were the Confederate victories in Tennessee scored by General Morgan and General Forrest and the triumph at the Second Battle of Bull Run hung up like visible Yankee scalps to gloat over.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Closer at home, a Union cavalry dash into Georgia had been turned into a Confederate triumph.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  She raised eyes blazing with love and triumph to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  There was a look of excitement and triumph on her face which brought sudden distrust to Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  She knew that the feeling of triumph surging through her was certain to be plain in her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Of course, I know the practical in you will always win, but I keep hanging around to see if your better nature won't triumph some day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  That's your home, mumbled Scarlett, toying with a pillow and keeping her eyes down to hide dawning triumph in them as she felt the tide turning her way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  Some of the triumph in her heart was dulled by a nagging fear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  There was the faintest gleam of triumph in Rhett's eyes as he bent to tie Bonnie's shoe string.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
13  She read, too, in his answering gaze the delicious confirmation of her triumph, and for the moment it seemed to her that it was for him only she cared to be beautiful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
14  The sight stirred Lily with an irresistible sense of triumph.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
15  When she did contrive to get sweetbreads at Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market the triumph was so vast that she buzzed with excitement and admired the strong wise butcher, Mr. Dahl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  He was punching the air in triumph.
2  The book celebrates the hostages' remarkable triumph over appalling adversity.
3  The championships proved to be a personal triumph for the coach, Dave Donovan.
4  The important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
5  Winning the championship is a great personal triumph.
6  It was a personal triumph over her old rival.
7  It was the Republican Party's third election triumph in a row.
8  I am influenced; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win.
9  Defeated, Queen Zenobia was forced to abase herself before the conquering Romans, who made her march in chains before the emperor in the procession celebrating his triumph.
10  The crowd is preparing to cheer and spark triumph of the runners.
11  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.
12  The news media is also more likely to gravitate to stories about horrific atrocities or dramatic triumphs over adversity than humdrum tales of a soldier returning home, getting a job and starting a family.
13  Italy may have had the pedigree of one European Championship title and four World Cup triumphs, but they travelled to Poland and Ukraine with few anticipating a run to the final.
14  There are creatures so little, so weak, as to be easily restrained thus, and triumphed over; but the leviathan is not one of these: he is made to be the terror, not the sport and diversion, of mankind.
15  He triumphed over his political enemies.