triumph
noun
the act, fact, or condition of being victorious or triumphant; victory; conquest.
was triumphing
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past progressiveof triumph.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“It was a comedy of errors,” Ms. Wiest said on Monday in a telephone interview from Heathrow, where hope was triumphing over experience.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2010
Wellington was triumphing in Portugal, in Spain, and even in England.
From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot
The tenseness of his form relaxed; Quest’s will was triumphing.
From The Black Box by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
He started, and ran to the window, with a feeling of anger, to see who it was that was triumphing over his misery.
From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by John Turvill Adams
Consciousness never seemed a moment absent from his mind, that he had defeated the calculations of the designing family; that he had distanced them; that he was triumphing over them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
