TRIUMPHANT in a Sentence

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Marius, triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase up which he had been borne in a dying condition.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRIUMPHANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
triumphant
 a.  experiencing triumph
 a.  joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Classic Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  The entrance was a triumphant one.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
2  Right triumphant has no need of being violent.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
3  At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, but which was triumphant, in reality.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
4  With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day which was at hand into three distinct phases.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
5  Marius, triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase up which he had been borne in a dying condition.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
6  Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable light on his countenance, his brow expanded, his eyes triumphant.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
7  The Englishman, quite triumphant, did not even give himself the trouble to shake the dice.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
8  He entered, after having twisted his mustache and elongated his imperial, which always announced on his part the most triumphant resolutions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
9  At that moment d'Artagnan passed in pursuit of Milady; he cast a passing glance at Porthos, and beheld this triumphant look.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
10  And he looked down at the pretty girl with the most triumphant air imaginable.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
11  Yet at the idea that the fiend should live and be triumphant, my rage and vengeance returned, and like a mighty tide, overwhelmed every other feeling.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  It was a ghastly look with which he regarded them; but there was something at once tender and strangely triumphant in it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
13  She gave me a triumphant glance in passing me, as if she rejoiced that my hands were so coarse and my boots were so thick, and she opened the gate, and stood holding it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
14  Traddles rose from his chair, and, with a triumphant smile, put his hand upon the white cloth I had observed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
15  Traddles and I laying our heads together apart, while Mr. Dick anxiously watched us from his chair, we concocted a scheme in virtue of which we got him to work next day, with triumphant success.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
Example Sentence:
1  I feel exhausted, but also triumphant.
2  The army made a triumphant entry into the enemy's capital.
3  The Democrats have emerged triumphant from the political crisis.
4  A triumphant smile appeared on his face.
5  There's a triumphant note in his gravelly voice.
6  Provided the mission concludes successfully though, the state media are likely to fuel a surge of triumphant patriotism.