How to Use exultation in a Sentence

exultation

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  • The crowd cheered in exultation.
  • But this year, the exultation among Democrats may stop abruptly at the state line, as the prospect of a red wave in other races across the country loomed.
    — Katie Mogg, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But while some might point to Khaled's exultations as a case of fatherly love (and a healthy dose of bias), there's a lot of truth to the hype around Asahd.
    — Cady Lang, Time, 22 June 2017
  • Then the humblest guy in the bullpen stood on the mound in exultation, pumping his fist and letting out a little yell.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • When the Ukrainian team came up on stage, they were greeted with exultation, Aguerre said.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Lorde is still trying to shed the angsty goth skin of her teen-age years, and sweetness and exultation do not quite come easily to her yet.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The exultation of seeing the first images have given way to even more pressure.
    — Shanti Lerner, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The exultation by the president and others of the greatness of North Korea doing this evades me.
    — Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • Part of the worship experience tends to be the exultation and singing loudly and joyously, and that seems to be a very risky part of this.
    — The Atlantic, 15 June 2020
  • Nadal thrust his left fist in exultation, while some spectators — including the golfer Tiger Woods — did the same.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Whether the emotion is sadness, happiness, fear or exultation, the rise will be there just like the phoenix rises.
    — idahostatesman, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Nick Bosa soon followed suit, dropping Wilson to the grass and hopping away in exultation.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The filmmakers are also there to observe election night in 2018, capturing the exultation when the Democrats took back the House.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 3 July 2020
  • The two rising, upturned arcs are as if Jesus and the world have united in a triumphant gesture of exultation, like a hero before a throng.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • No more exultation: New Yorkers on a workday, amid crappy news, their own meshugaas, and the doldrums of winter.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The new film may begin with a brief, black-and-white remembrance of Enzo as a competitor, grinning with exultation at the wheel.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And yet the ebbing pandemic leaves in its wake a curious absence of exultation.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • More Stories For all those triumphal dimensions, though, the defining mood of these books is not exultation.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Alex Jebailey stood in the middle of a wrestling ring on Friday night, his hands raised in victory – but his exultation wasn’t just about winning a match.
    — Jay Reddick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 July 2018
  • There are cries of exultation and howls of aggravation.
    — A.o. Scott, Esquire, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Sunday at Stafford Motor Speedway though, a side of Preece never seen before after an event poured out as the exultation of victory set in.
    — Shawn Courchesne, courant.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • At Chanhassen, the actors perform with spark, as if the production is not just about a show reopening, but an exultation to life itself.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
  • How cool to watch the opposing teams have their way, pound their chests in exultation, then be obliterated in a blur of pass-first, up-tempo, defense-minded basketball.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Now the epithet was a celebration, but there was still, even in exultation, a bit more menace in its repetition than made real sense in the moment.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 June 2021
  • Canha cruised home from third and Starling Marte motored all the way around from first to ignite yet another game-ending exultation at the Coliseum.
    — Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Curry finished with 33, and once again, from certain hallway locations, the shouts of exultation could be heard from inside the visitors’ locker room.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 3 June 2019
  • The track builds to a mammoth moment of vocal exultation, again orchestrated to bellow through arenas later this year.
    — Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 12 May 2022
  • Not surprisingly, the concerto then races to its finish, the solo part ricocheting from the lowest pitches to the highest and back in a burst of rhythmic exultation.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Forgive the following fanboy exultation: The young-adult version Dexter (of Dexter’s Lab, of course) is absurdly bad ass.
    — Nate Ralph, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2008
  • The extreme propulsion the young Dudamel brought to the final movement’s arresting 20-minute progress from panicky crisis to euphoric exultation felt like prophesy.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021

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