Example Sentences

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Instead, once his deal with the Dodgers was finalized, Hernández tweeted out the news himself, elating Dodger fans by writing, “Sources say….. I’m back!!!”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 2024

So when you liberate aggressive energy, it's euphoric, elating, you feel alive.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2021

And it's maddening when you can't do it every time, but it's elating when you can do it at all.

From Fox News • Apr. 3, 2021

Similarly elating is a blue wall that bears a fantastic variety of both functional and decorative store-bought metalwork by Maia Ruth Lee.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

What I felt was one part jet lag, maybe, but two parts something more profound and elating.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama