exult
verb (used without object)
to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant.
have been exulting
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present perfect progressiveof exult.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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I had been thinking about life when I might have been exulting in it.
From The King's Mirror by Anthony Hope
Since you brought it to me last night I have been exulting in the thought of it.
From Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls by Julia Augusta Schwartz
And this that is unbearable egotism, why, it would have been exulting power!
From The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow by Upton Sinclair
In New York they have been exulting over the capture of Charleston, and gold declined heavily.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
