Example Sentences

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Though Degas demonstrates ballet’s beauty here, he traces no exultance in her; and meanwhile, he allows us to feel kinesthetically just how each muscle is operating.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

And now, in open water, Tedge plunged on in fierce exultance.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison

There was no 309 exultance in his bearing.

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames

She shivered with exultance and blamed it on the chill.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert