exultation

How To Use exultation In A Sentence

• She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray.
• One Glasgow night of aberrationWhen kilted goblins with libationToasted Burns in tawdry exultationAll pished as fartsNot even armed with banjo could theyHit a coo's arse Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this | Kevin McKenna
• People were shouting and cheering in frenzied exultation.
• Its impact on Reilly, who was at Wilson's bedside at the very end, ran much deeper, and while this work is explicitly signalled as a 'paean' - literally a song of joy or exultation - it is one etched in melancholy notes. Drowned In Sound // Feed
• There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles. A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow
• The club takes its name from the Spanish cry of exuberance and exultation.
• Reflecting on her attainment, she uttered these verses in exultation: Psalms of the Sisters
• No sooner was the sail shortened than we were surrounded by nearly two hundred of them: the men raising their paddles as they approached us, shouting with much exultation, 'chimo! chimo! pillattaa! pillattaa!' expressions probably of friendship, or trade. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.
• He paused, attempting to remind himself of what it was in its original form, recalling messily a black woman (in place of the Latina woman) seeing a Marcus Garvey poster (or was it W. E. B. DuBois?) raising her arm and shouting in exultation. Brit Lit Blogs
• Nature, like a proud conqueror, appeared to have put on a triumphal garb, in exultation of the devastation she had committed the night before. The Scottish Chiefs