triumph
noun
the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory; conquest.
are triumphing
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present progressiveof triumph.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Affairs, as you know, are in a bad state; the country is in disorder, and the enemy are triumphing everywhere.
From At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens
And I love you now, because I see that you are triumphing over these vile principles, and that your evil inspirations are followed by tears of honest regret.
From Mauprat by Stanley Young
Is it not fine the way the Balkan States are triumphing?
From Poems by Alan Seeger
Toward the end of the last act, when the devils are triumphing over their apparent victory and the possession of Faust's body, a voice from heaven is heard: 'Triumph not!
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by H. B. (Henry Bernard) Cotterill
Yes, and the end is near; the people are triumphing; and the fact is visible to the very owls and bats of theology.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
