exult

Example Sentences

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“No grownups!” the boys exult, upon realizing they are on a deserted island after the plane evacuating them from Britain is shot down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

In another refrain found in many poems, the women exult: “I have become cool, free.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

It’s a thumping, reverberating, woofer-rattling, arena-scale sensation, something to exult in even when it doesn’t always go right.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

Against any other quarterback, maybe on any other day, Buffalo could exhale and exult.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2022

My Dear Mentor, Please make my adieux to your aunt, and exult within yourself, for ‘Lazy Laurence’ has gone to his grandpa, like the best of boys.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott