How to Use elation in a Sentence

elation

noun

• If any of the men had placed bets, none of them showed elation.
  — Patrick Boehler, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• And then there was -- elation for just a quick point in time.
  — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2020
• At the time, the news had sparked elation and hopes for genuine change.
  — Nargis Kassenova, Foreign Affairs, 18 Jan. 2022
• After the goal, Sinclair tossed the ball in the air in elation.
  — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
• Close your eyes, hold on to your friends and let the the waves of elation wash over your body, mind and soul.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2017
• But the new calf’s arrival rounded out the decade with elation for the zoo and its fans.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2019
• Most times, the elation of pulling off the first-round upset led to a second-round rout.
  — Tim Booth, Star Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
• The days of greasy elation from his Parks & Rec past are far behind him.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 28 June 2022
• There was a wave of elation in the live chat comments as well as in the Facebook group for fans of the park’s bears.
  — Natalie B. Compton, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• What Italy lost, of course, was the chance to feel sporting elation and torment and hope.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
• She was joined in her elation by a number of stars who shared in her joy.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2021
• Stephen Curry skipped in elation from half court to the bench for a timeout.
  — Rusty Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Email after email, Staton and his friends were in shock and elation to read the good news.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 July 2020
• Many staffers had been there all night watching the returns in a state of elation.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• Sousa clapped rounding the bases as the Lions’ dugout roared with elation.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
• Platsch and his 21 crewmen must have felt a wild elation.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• The Thorns led 1-0, and a packed Providence Park shook with elation.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• At the time, however, the spike was just a way for Jones to show his elation while avoiding a fine.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• The first day back, the elation of people coming in the front doors was unreal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• There was the father of Javion Hamlet, going up and down the stairs in nerves and elation as his son starred.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2021
• The road was bumpy, hard on her tired body, and yet her overall feeling was elation.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• Of course, the users of Twitter chimed in with (mostly) elation, and even came up with a few nicknames.
  — Dana Sulonen, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2018
• The remaining few days of the cruise, Robinson said, were filled with elation.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
• Much of the anguish and the elation in our lives begins with a glance, a kiss and then—a lifelong struggle to make sense of the verb to love.
  — Sue Johnson, Scientific American, 23 July 2017
• The mood among Beavers fans went from elation to deflation.
  — Joel Odom, OregonLive.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• The stories elicited the same brief elation and relief as the Sichuan highway beasts had.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• In Eagle Pass, the mood among Cuban migrants was elation.
  — Dallas News, 21 June 2022
• After years of hard work on the high-risk project, for a few brief moments the team allowed their elation to take over.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
• They're sometimes filled with too much elation or anger to be useful.
  — Jeffrey Van Camp Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 20 June 2024
• The elation of her opponents, who managed to limit her gains Sunday, is understandable.
  — Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024