How to Use exultant in a Sentence

exultant

adjective

• The crowd let out an exultant cheer.
• Researchers are exultant over the new discovery.
• The same exultant mood was breaking out across the state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• Exultant armies and militias now occupy the ground once held by the caliphate.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2017
• Among the team’s most exultant fans was Eddie Vedder, the frontman for Pearl Jam.
  — Daniel M. Gold, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• The sensation was that of Beethoven coming straight at you, no ducking, which could be both exultant and crude.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Scalise’s exultant appearance marked his first return to the House since the June 14 shooting.
  — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2017
• All these works — even the obsessive and eerie ones — feel somehow exultant.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• As a kind of human pace car, Timberlake set a goofy, exultant tone.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• But look closer: The exultant vitality that made this woman the warrior queen of the dance floor is gone.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• Paris became the center of the world, and Stardust provided the exultant soundtrack.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 June 2019
• Their own path was charted years ago by clotheshorses and exultant dressers André 3000 and Diddy.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 14 May 2018
• Romero said of that moment of achievement that was neither joyful nor exultant.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee.com, 12 June 2017
• Her expression was exultant, her pale cheeks were flushed.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• Today—on this, the exultant occasion of Amazon Prime Day 2021—is splash out time, baby.
  — Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2021
• Sweets are thrust into the mouths of exultant opposition politicians as the cameras look on.
  — Omar Waraich, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
• What Joiner found was the terrifying, exultant beauty of the desert.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• Their exultant high had been cruelly dashed in a crazy period of just six minutes.
  — Don Riddell, CNN, 22 May 2020
• Lance was exultant, but also exhaling: Some of the pressure had been relieved.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 July 2022
• Corrin, who uses they/them pronouns, is known for their turn as Princess Diana on The Crown, and brings an exultant modernity to their first major lead role in a film.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022
• This is why iconoclasts like Fuentes and Jones have often seemed more exultant than angry since Election Day.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• The book begins with a quirkily exultant 30-page ode, relayed in the first person plural and filled with the author’s signature lists.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• The Wall was actually breached by exultant Berliners who chipped away at the wall with pickaxes, demolishing parts of it in the process.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2019
• The mind recoils at what the eye drinks in: Radiant color swiped in exultant strokes, greedily lapped up while rot and violence abound.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Amid the exultant lawyers and friends, Carson mostly sat quietly.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
• Infantino, who now resides in Qatar, offered exultant praise for his hosts.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• The real-world Everett has a brashly self-confident voice, put to work on exultant songs about seeking and finding pleasure.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Jan. 2022
• And one is a view of a nude man seen from behind, the back and buttocks strong and firm, a memory perhaps of Picasso’s old friend’s exultant account all those years earlier.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• Its engine is turbine-smooth and hungry for revs, surging towards the 6,900 rpm cutoff with an exultant bellow.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2021
• Succession at a time of somber reflection rather than exultant triumph is part of the genius of constitutional monarchy.
  — Andrew Roberts, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024