What's the difference between hooray and joy?

Hooray


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He tweeted: "The Sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray" and linked to the Sun website in September.
  • (2) Hooray, no more queuing behind coffee freeloaders,” tweeted Beverley de Valmency.
  • (3) If a beach this stunning were 400 miles south, it’d be smeared in luxury apartment complexes, hooray Henrys and yachts and, thereby, ruined.
  • (4) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (5) There's a craft beer truck (a huge hooray from my husband) that is romantically called Captured By Porches .
  • (6) So, hooray for the private sector, riding to the rescue, when the NHS couldn't help.
  • (7) A complaint was lodged with the Greater London authority after the mayor of London tweeted: " The Sun has got his hat on, hip hip hip hip hooray " and linked to the Sun website in September.
  • (8) To be honest, turning 40 was much like when I turned 30, though I felt a bit more grown-up (meaning I drank fizzy wine and said, "No thanks", as opposed to "Hooray", when a stranger tried to shove an unidentified pill into my mouth).
  • (9) I'm saying "Hooray" because he has recognised that the only way to save America is to confront it.
  • (10) It’s also the first week this year I’ve spotted wrist hankies – hooray!
  • (11) That’s my judgment.” Again, the prospect of stock market meltdown is swatted away: “I don’t think that follows at all … if you’re coming forward with a positive proposal to trade across Europe and the world, a lot of the stock markets would say, hooray.” Then why do US-owned banks threaten to leave?
  • (12) If the year's two biggest blockbusters strive to be meatier than Transformers, hooray.
  • (13) Our pal Roger Kirkby sends his first missive of the night: 40 pitches for Boston, 25 for Detroit, hooray, a long night coming in the bar Very true, I feel like sending a long Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary email to my girlfriend.
  • (14) I'm not saying, "Hooray, he offered a tough, dark recognition of our reality."
  • (15) All you need to do is say, ‘You know what, what I’ve said this stuff in the past, it was a mistake, it’s hurting people’s mental health, it’s part of the problem, it’s not part of the solution, I’m sorry, hooray for gay people, here’s some glitter.’ ” Aleta (@aleta_k) Bob Katter won’t look at Josh Thomas - is he afraid of catching gay?
  • (16) 8.56pm BST Hooray and haroo for Ruby who is this week's star baker.
  • (17) Lagarde and Kim say the world needs to make a better fist of tackling inequality – hooray to that.
  • (18) All you need to do is say, ‘You know what, what I’ve said this stuff in the past, it was a mistake, it’s hurting people’s mental health, it’s part of the problem, it’s not part of the solution, I’m sorry, hooray for gay people, here’s some glitter.’ ” The winner of the International Emmy will be announced in a New York ceremony next month.
  • (19) He felt it had not included the little people: HS2 Ltd “haven’t really met anybody – only those that want a free lunch, the hooray Henrys”.
  • (20) The mugs said: "A royal baby in 2013" and "Hooray for Will and Kate".

Joy


Definition:

  • (n.) The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
  • (n.) That which causes joy or happiness.
  • (n.) The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
  • (n.) To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
  • (v. t.) To give joy to; to congratulate.
  • (v. t.) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
  • (v. t.) To enjoy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (2) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
  • (3) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
  • (4) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (5) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
  • (6) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
  • (7) But in the event, two US writers have made the final round of this year's award: Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler .
  • (8) It's no surprise that one of the last things Ian Curtis of Joy Division did before hanging himself was to watch Herzog's Stroszeck (1977).
  • (9) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
  • (10) "She's very agile as a performer, and is able to deliver again and again so it's a very joyful watch."
  • (11) Many of my friends have been crying with joy this week.
  • (12) Waitrose evokes strong opinions: from sniffy derision about the supermarket's perceived airs and graces to expressions of joy from middle-class incomers when their gentrified area is blessed with a branch.
  • (13) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
  • (14) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
  • (15) To everyone's joy, both stories turned out to be true.
  • (16) The experiences that most often led to high levels of joy were those referrable to positive emotional events.
  • (17) However, nerves among the Stoke fans subsequently turned to joy and relief as a substitute, Mame Biram Diouf, headed in with seven minutes to go and confirmed victory.
  • (18) When Gould almost dies one night, and the next morning is instead given three or four days to live, she experiences a strange joy at the extra time granted, more precious hours to talk with him about their twin passions, Queens Park Rangers and the Labour party, more time to help him get his book finished.
  • (19) Vic Goddard, principal of Passmores academy in neighbouring Essex, the school featured in the TV series Educating Essex, who recently published a book about the joys of headship, The Best Job In The World, says the document spells out what is going on across the country.
  • (20) Joshua Ferris's novel about dentistry, virtual identity and the search for meaning is bitingly funny; Karen Joy Fowler draws on studies of chimpanzee behaviour to consider what it is that makes us human.

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