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How to use ebullient in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Ebullient means enthusiastic; high-spirited. Example: “Boris Johnson, the ebullient editor of the Spectator and Tory MP for Henley, is at the centre of a Scotland Yard inquiry over an allegedly racist article by the columnist Taki which provoked death threats against a leading black lawyer.”

Examples of ebullient by meaning

adjectiveEnthusiastic; high-spirited.

  • Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 233
  • Boris Johnson, the ebullient editor of the Spectator and Tory MP for Henley, is at the centre of a Scotland Yard inquiry over an allegedly racist article by the columnist Taki which provoked death threats against a leading black lawyer.2003 February 28, Nick Hopkins, “Spectator and its Tory MP editor may face charges over Taki race rant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  • But now, as an ebullient Mr.2024 December 10, Isabel Depre, “After President Milei’s first year, Argentina’s economy is looking strangely ... normal”, in The Christian...

More sentences with ebullient

  • Ebullient and purposeful, Johnson rose quickly among the Foreign Service's small corps of China hands.2013, David Mayers, FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98. From the entry Hankow
  • That the more joy we share, the more joy fills us, self-replenishingly, until it boils up ebullient and flows out effortlessly.2022, Lauren Shufran, “Sympathetic Joy in As You Like It”, in The Buddha and the Bard: Where Shakespeare’s Stage Meets Buddhist…. From the entry replenishingly
  • In interviews he speaks in endless, ebullient sentences that surround their subjects like spider's webs and sometimes suffocate them.1976, James Monaco, “Rivette: The Process of Narrative”, in The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry logorrhea
  • With its half-dozen rough preloved tables, gentle jazz and ebullient Venetian owner, Xemei is a slice of Venice on the side of Montjuïc hill.2008, Damien Simonis, Barcelona. From the entry preloved
  • Ebullient and normally sparkly-eyed, Lockwood glistens today with the added stimulus of the makeup-remover that, still drying on her cheeks, brings up an occasional tear.1986 December 14, Calvin Ahlgren, “Mime Trouper Masters Berkeley’s ‘Servant’”, in Datebook (San Francisco Chronicle), page 29, columns 1–2. From the entry makeup-remover
  • Whatever it was that had cast a dark shadow and gravened the faces of those normally ebullient people was much too complicated for me to understand.2012, Samuel W Herbert, Avenue. From the entry graven
  • With its emphasis on technology, its ebullient optimism, and boundless claims for design’s responsibility and power, MC is a cross between a world’s fair, a futurama, and a technology expo.2007, Robert Levit, Evonne Levy, “Design Will Save the World! On Bruce Mau’s Massive Change and the Mediatization of Culture”, in William…. From the entry futurama

Meaning of ebullient

  1. adjective Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
  2. adjective Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.
  3. adjective Causing heat.

Full definition of ebullient

Questions about ebullient in a sentence

How do you use ebullient in a sentence?
Ebullient is used as an adjective. For example: “Boris Johnson, the ebullient editor of the Spectator and Tory MP for Henley, is at the centre of a Scotland Yard inquiry over an allegedly racist article by the columnist Taki which provoked death threats against a leading black lawyer.”
What is a short sentence with ebullient?
“But now, as an ebullient Mr.”
What does ebullient mean?
Ebullient means enthusiastic; high-spirited.

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