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How to use exult in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb

Exult means to rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over). Example: “I took off my shirt and exulted.”

Examples of exult by meaning

verbTo rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).

  • I took off my shirt and exulted.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC

More sentences with exult

  • “I delight in your commands because I love them,” the writer exults (verse 47).2017, Tompaul Wheeler, “To Kill a Mocking Son: Part 2”, in God Space: Daily Devotions for Teens; From All about Me to All about Thee…. From the entry lawkeeping
  • How I long for a deckful of my friends to exult with me in this delight !2005, Andrew Carnegie, Round the World, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry deckful
  • How I exult when the moon-flood gushes, drowning the white snowspurt of the Devil's snake!2003, Kenneth Grant, Gamaliel The Diary of a Vampire, page 27. From the entry moon flood
  • Yesterday he very unmanlily exulted over me, on account of your determination to stay.1908, Mary Wollstonecraft, Gilbert Imlay, Roger Ingpen, The love letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay, Hutchinson, →OCLC. From the entry unmanlily
  • The U.S. exulted 40 years ago when it brought its three Apollo 13 astronauts back safely from a disaster in space.2010 October 13, Tim Padgett, “Chile Celebrates As Miners Emerge from Underground”, in Time, retrieved 28 Aug 2013. From the entry finest hour
  • The Potter press exulted in scientific discoveries made easy, but it was better than not exulting in them at all.1920, Rose Macaulay, “The Precisian at War with the World”, in Potterism: A Tragi-farcical Tract, London; Glasgow: W[illiam] Collins Sons…. From the entry tabloid
  • I love to fix people's hair," exulted Pollyanna, carefully laying down the hand-glass and reaching for a comb.1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC. From the entry hand glass
  • Outside of this limitation the term has no use but to confuse the public and to exult and bigotise the sceptic.1911, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. From the entry bigotize
  • Michael Castle of Delaware exulted that "I think Bush can start measuring the curtains for the White House," the mood among Democrats was somber.1988 October 15, New York Times. From the entry measure the drapes
  • I recall an article I read a couple of years back by one of those French linguonationalists aggrieved at the dominance of English, exulting in Francafrique’s population boom.2015 April 25, Martian Observer, The Unz Review. From the entry linguonationalist
  • He gave great attention and care to 'hatch, match and dispatch', exulting when those whom he had married in Chapel brought back their offspring to be baptised.2012, Roger Holloway, Revd Roger Holloway Obe Ma. From the entry hatch, match, and dispatch
  • So Suzy and I compared our faultless arms, and exulted in our survival, in our own not wanting to die, in our own smackless pleasure in being just alive.1996, James M. Hawes, A White Merc with Fins, page 57. From the entry smackless
  • With the main crisis is linked the scene in which the murderess, casting off the mask of her hypocrisy, openly exults in her deed, defends herself, and defies her subjects.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 158. From the entry murderess

Meaning of exult

  1. verb To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).

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Questions about exult in a sentence

How do you use exult in a sentence?
Exult is used as a verb. For example: “I took off my shirt and exulted.”
What is a short sentence with exult?
“I took off my shirt and exulted.”
What does exult mean?
Exult means to rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).

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