(n.) That which causes to rejoice; occasion of joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(3) The markets went quiet, Spain, Italy, and Ireland rejoiced, as Draghi emphasised for the third time in six weeks that the euro is irreversible.
(4) Yet while our national income is almost back to where it was before the crisis (rejoice!
(5) The over-50s, rejoicing in the untaxed capital gains they enjoy from buying property a generation ago, will help their own kids, but are not asked to help anyone else’s.
(6) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
(7) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
(8) Allowed to play, Alan Pardew having opted against recalling the out-of-favour Mile Jedinak to anchor his midfield, the visitors rejoiced.
(9) In an interview on his 90th birthday, he was asked if he had rejoiced at the news.
(10) "I think Africans rejoicing at his making it to office came from the need for a psychological boost as well as an indication of Africans buying into the American dream – that one's roots can be African and one can succeed in life, with those roots.
(11) As a Guardian writer, I should rejoice at the added readers and influence we will get (though all these challenges are ours, too).
(12) Northerners, it seems, are expected to rejoice at the fact they can commute to well-paying jobs in the south-east without having to up sticks.
(13) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
(14) "Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," she said in an interview with a Christian radio station.
(15) However, it is still early for us to rejoice knowing that China is not heeding the ruling.
(16) Greeks,” he said, “should rejoice.” The government that had put the country through an assault course of austerity would soon be over.
(17) The home crowd were silenced, the Irish players rejoiced.
(18) He taught us so much about seizing opportunities and rejoicing in everything life could offer, no matter how small.” Hett’s friend Christina wrote that her heart was “broken into a million pieces” at the loss of “my best friend, my maid of honour”.
(19) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
(20) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.
Triumphant
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Foodmakers will also burble on about their “philosophy” or their “mission” or their “strong core values” or the “adventure” or “journey” they have been on in order to get their products triumphantly shelved in Waitrose .
(2) Looking back over the 57 years that have elapsed since his death, one sees him as an artist who played the most dangerous of all games and played it triumphantly where all his followers have failed.
(3) Recalling the triumphant welcome into Jerusalem, Francis said Jesus "awakened so many hopes in the heart, above all among humble, simple, poor, forgotten people, those who don't matter in the eyes of the world".
(4) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(5) In smaller meetings, he varies his tone from the confidential to the triumphant depending on the audience.
(6) As the neophyte becomes seasoned, these triumphant challenges will become a part of the position she has struggled for and deserves.
(7) Once he'd got through security his assurance returned and a triumphant Ed strode magnificently into the lobby.
(8) It was meant to herald the triumphant return to newsstands of a venerable 80-year-old American media institution with a proud journalistic record.
(9) In 2012, despite the London Whale losses of around $6bn weighing on the bank, it again turned in record – even “triumphant” – profits of $24bn, although Dimon’s pay was halved to around $11m as a scold for the scandal.
(10) Sandwiched into the triumphant 50s was Kneale's astonishingly mature version of 1984, an adapation that had his usual pace but encompassed the full dread and pity of the novel.
(11) In a triumphant survey of what he described as the group’s growing influence, the speaker also mentioned support from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
(12) Jürgen Klopp responded to Divock Origi’s 95th minute equaliser by beating his chest in front of the West Bromwich Albion bench, eyeballing Tony Pulis and leading Liverpool’s players in triumphant applause to the Kop.
(13) David Cameron was oblivious to the hell about to be unleashed within the Conservatives as he stood triumphantly at a lectern in Brussels late on Friday afternoon.
(14) The figures, showing a 4% gain in same-store sales and profits of $353m (£218m), up 200%, underlined what has been a triumphant return for Schultz, who became chief executive again at the start of 2008, after stepping back from day-to-day running of the business to become chairman eight years earlier.
(15) His triumphant Porto side could come up with flourishes in the midst of their conservatism and Chelsea will surely do likewise eventually but the Stamford Bridge project is barely begun.
(16) These he propagated not from the normal method of grafting, but from pips, once triumphantly producing a particularly dark specimen from a core harvested in Ted Hughes's garden.
(17) News of Guzmán's capture has been triumphantly received in the US, where he is blamed for up to 80% of the drugs trade in cities such as Chicago, with the official response emphasising the successful collaboration of the US with the Mexican authorities.
(18) About three minutes in, the descending scale becomes a blazing, triumphant melody - the sun rising on the mountain.
(19) The manager reminded us beforehand that we had won here last year,” the former United midfielder said on his first, triumphant return.
(20) Through a cacophonous sea of blue and white on either side, the bus carrying Leicester City’s triumphant Premier League champions slowly snaked its way through the streets of the city in a victory parade like no other in British footballing history.