elate
Example Sentences
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And if you can hear a song as irresistible as “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” and not feel your soul elate, you may be a stranger to joy.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020
McQueen worked the way a dreaming brain does, transmuting suppressed instinct into images that can trouble, mystify, and elate.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
“One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament,” he added.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010
It was a record-breaking budget calculated to elate no one and enrage no one.
From Time Magazine Archive
First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing elate
5-letter words, List 1
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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
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Poems 11.2
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