(a.) Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.
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.
Jubilant
Definition:
(a.) Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
(2) She lives in Holland Park and welcomes visitors with a gusty wrench of the door and a jubilant "hello".
(3) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(4) Trepidation gave way to further jubilation when Kightly doubled their lead.
(5) O'Neill is jubilant about recent developments and, particularly, with Agbonlahor's debut as a substitute for England last week.
(6) This bill cements Britain's leadership in creating a world that is healthier, more stable and increasingly prosperous Justine Greening The passage of the bill was met with jubilation by NGOs, who said it would bring stability to poorer countries, while encouraging other donor governments to meet the UN target.
(7) Every so often, however, there are ideas so bad that jubilation is the only response when they are seen off.
(8) By early afternoon the jubilant mood was filling protesters with hope as they congregated near the interior ministry, whose basement houses the regime's underground torture chambers.
(9) It’s not jubilation,” said Dick Durbin, the Senate minority whip, of the mood in the party.
(10) Pogliese, who is also a deputy for the party in the European parliament, woke in a jubilant mood on Monday morning, announcing to the local press that Renzi’s defeat marked “a wind of change”.
(11) Scenes of jubilation among protesters at Sana'a University quickly dissolved into anger and frustration as news of Saleh's speech spread.
(12) At first Mikel looked surprised to be in so much space, but his shot beat Trapp from six yards and that was a jubilant way for Chelsea to end the first half.
(13) Deborah Linton, a lecturer who lives in Barnet and who joined the Barnet CPZ Action Group said she was "absolutely jubilant" "When the CPZ was brought in, it was perfectly legitimate.
(14) Eight days ago, to the jubilation of its critics and environmentalists, it emerged that the Scottish executive was "minded to refuse" the £500m scheme as it would seriously damage the moor's extremely fragile, internationally-protected habitats for rare birds such as dunlin, golden eagles, merlin, golden plover and red-throated divers.
(15) Addressing jubilant supporters at Waukesha's county exposition centre, Walker said his renewed mandate would resonate far and wide.
(16) With the last kick of a riveting final Group F match Agnor Ingvi Traustason, a second-half replacement, scored a memorable goal, and as Szymon Marciniak, the Polish referee, blew instantly for time, a jubilant Iceland bench ran on to the pitch, and the fans celebrated wildly.
(17) Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali high five while surrounded by jubilant fans after he beat Sonny Liston.
(18) After a hard-fought victory one freezing night last November the jubilant forward sprinted off the pitch and hurled his shirt, shorts, socks and boots into the crowd, Sun, the chairman, recalled.
(19) A frenzy of jubilant activity: this is a huge win for Milo.
(20) The faces here, in contrast to those at the window of remembrance, are jubilant, incredulous.