(v. i.) To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) I mean, why would they?” Abbott later told reporters in Canberra of the need for action “when you’ve got people born in Australia, educated in Australia, going overseas and exultantly holding up the severed heads of surrendering members of the Iraqi security forces”.
(2) Tony Abbott has defended the need to force people returning from declared conflict zones to prove they were there for legitimate purposes, saying Australian-born fighters were “exultantly holding up the severed heads of surrendering members of the Iraqi security forces”.
(3) It was a phase in Rooke's experience that he never forgot, though never exulted in nor even willingly discussed.
(4) Not that this exultant need for freedom is anything new.
(5) It was a day of relief as well as exultation, manager José Mourinho’s third title with the club, his first since he returned in 2013 for his second stint as manager, and only the fifth Chelsea had ever won, despite all the recent investment from their billionaire owner Roman Abramovich.
(6) One young woman shoots a German soldier and almost vomits with shock; a kindly old postmistress takes an axe to the head of another Nazi, and her face is exultant at the savage act.
(7) Two years later he was outraged when the title track of Born in the USA, written in the voice of an embittered Vietnam veteran, was appropriated by the Republican party, who mistook its deceptively exultant chorus and tried to use it as a flag-waving campaign anthem for Ronald Reagan.
(8) Pope Francis transformed New York City’s entertainment forum, Madison Square Garden, into a realm of worship and reverence on Thursday night to cap an indelible day in which he exulted in and elevated the spirit of America’s raucous, throbbing metropolis.
(9) I used to stand among people, knowing my body was strong and fine, under my dress, and secretly exult."
(10) "I have a friend in Ireland who knit his Action Man an entire kit, including a tent," exults Meg Fairfax-Fielding.
(11) Sue Ledwith Ruskin College, Oxford • Guy Standing exults over Magna Carta as "one of the greatest political documents of all time".
(12) He’s the one representing minorities across the US,” exulted Yuliana Miranda, 23, a teacher, amid deafening chants of “Bernie”.
(13) We did it!” she exulted to cheering supporters two hours after polls closed.
(14) "That," adds Punzo, "is what life has become: the exultation of mediocrity.
(15) I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
(16) Later in the afternoon, an exultant Trump celebrated with dozens of Republican congressmen at the White House.
(17) When I exultantly spat the knotted string out into my hand, she looked at it and said, horrified, "Is that phlegm?
(18) He would humiliate husbands and sometimes he exulted in a kind of mutual sexual degradation.
(19) The exultant Democrat voiced the deep frustration of millions of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, including “struggling rust belt communities and small towns that have been hollowed out by lost jobs and lost hope”.
(20) As he exits the platform he hi-fives his coach, chalk dust pluming from their exultation.
Glory
Definition:
(n.) Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
(n.) That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.
(n.) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
(n.) The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.
(n.) An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
(n.) To exult with joy; to rejoice.
(n.) To boast; to be proud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(2) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(3) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(4) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
(5) Harold Ramis, who helped catch phantoms in Ghostbusters and directed Bill Murray to glory in Groundhog Day , has died at the age of 69.
(6) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(7) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(8) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(9) What promised to be a day of utter humiliation had turned into yet another day of glory.
(10) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(11) And which glory-seeking, peacock-proud youth does not want to stand in the middle for hours and be admired?
(12) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(13) In 1948 it was a battered and exhausted London that played host, knowing that the days of imperial glory were gone for ever.
(14) His players gave everything to overcome José Mourinho's team and will always be convinced that a night of incredible volume and high drama could have led them to glory rather than the crushing inevitability of Cristiano Ronaldo inflicting the final blow.
(15) The authors suggest that morning glory disc and optic pit share similar anatomic features, differing more in degree than in kind, and that the porous nature of the poorly differentiated tissue herniated around the optic nerve into the subarachnoid space in these conditions makes several sources of subretinal fluid possible.
(16) The NHS is Labour’s crowning glory, showcasing the party’s founding principles of people before profit.
(17) There is currently evidence of developmental delay and right-sided visual impairment due to Morning Glory syndrome.
(18) But Jeff Koons, as hard and as skilfully as he may try, will never trump Blackpool prom in its full illuminated autumn evening glory.
(19) As you walk out of the forest, the beach is right in front of you in all its glory.
(20) So much for the macro picture but at micro level German glory will prompt individual prosperity.