How to Use exult in a Sentence

exult

verb

• Prince exults in the cheers from the Coachella crowd in 2008.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
• Free of his boy band, Styles exults in sound, not image.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• Sometimes the fairies write back — on slips of birch bark, tucked into the crevice of a log for children to find and exult over.
  — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• Both exult in fame and wealth and put feelings before facts.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 June 2018
• In different times, the result might have been cause to exult.
  — Glenn Gamboa, ajc, 27 Jan. 2021
• Tameilau drove in for a hoop, scoring while drawing the foul as Blythe exulted on the Eastside bench.
  — John Reid, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
• And when Mostert scored his fourth touchdown of the day, on a 22-yard run midway through the third quarter, the linemen again exulted.
  — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• Kent doesn’t exult in the wide majesty of the forests, but rather conveys the ominous trees surrounding Clare and Billy on all sides.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2019
• Never mind the fault in our stars (though one character gets cancer as well), this is a book that exults in them.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Dodger Stadium exulted as the home team piled up 14 runs.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The war was needed so that a bunch of animals could simply exult in glory.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 27 June 2023
• Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders exulted the day after.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 7 May 2017
• Riding was mostly a sport of well-off young men, and riders exulted at the dual feelings of speed and height.
  — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• The city’s once-beleaguered communist mayor exults in all the good news.
  — Stephen Heyman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2018
• Right tackle Jalen Mayfield exulted and the Michigan crowd roared, thrilled their team was now ahead, 17-0, as halftime loomed in the distance.
  — Rainer Sabin, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2019
• Cities up and down America’s Eastern Seaboard exulted over the news.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• Right tackle Jalen Mayfield exulted and the Michigan crowd roared, thrilled their team was ahead, 17-0, as halftime loomed.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2019
• The day when artists and audiences can breathe and exult together in the same room is getting ever closer.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
• As the full cast settled in for the final, Mitchell-honoring stretch, the central guest of honor exulted in the accolades.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
• Their visits to him at his home in the south of France — Alex exulting, comically, in the foreignness of the place names — become cozy beachside idylls for the tight-knit bunch.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• President Emmanuel Macron exulted on the field and in the locker room with the players, and is hoping their victory gives him a boost, too.
  — Fox News, 16 July 2018
• Much of the team—hell, much of the entire operation—looked on reporters as rats in the corncrib, just waiting for the ultimate failure in which to exult.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 July 2017
• Bobby Butler went last, and when Francouz rebuffed him, the Czechs exulted.
  — Adam Kilgore, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
• Around me, a youthful microcosm goes bonkers, exulting in both 1960s Arabic pop and Paris Is Burning death drops.
  — Billboard, 14 June 2018
• Edwards had raised Chris and Erin, loved them, encouraged them, worried about them, and exulted in their triumphs, large and small, like any good mother would.
  — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• On social media, at least, Trump's loyal if rather narrow core group of supporters seemed to exult.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• Fans also have avenues now to exult or vent publicly in ways that were scarcely imaginable when the first movie premiered in 1977, and Disney wants to keep them in a buying mood.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 Dec. 2019
• In Hungary and Poland the right exults in blood-and-soil nationalism, which excludes and discriminates.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• In part, of course, that was because of the timing: there was a victory party scheduled for Madrid the day after the team returned from Ukraine; there was another triumph to exult in.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• Harsh critics see it (rightly so, perhaps) as having little to no story, while fans love to exult in the silly CGI spectacles.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024