exult
verb (used without object)
to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant.
had been exulting
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past perfect progressiveof exult.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Only the morning before she had been exulting over the humiliation of Trevethlan, and now her own hearth was desolate.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
Ten minutes ago I had been exulting in the glories of the morning, and now the sun was not less bright or the colours less fair, but the heart had gone out of the spectator.
From Prester John by John Buchan
He who had been exulting in having put their necks under his foot had been himself struck down in the moment of his triumph.
From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Two stewards talking near him, earlier in the morning, had been exulting over the probable largesse such a list would result in at the end of the passage.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Katy had been exulting over this for the past twenty-four hours.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
