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

It seemed to my childish imagination that she was triumphing over her difficulties and defying toil and pain, with words specially adapted to her "up and down," the to and fro movement in spinning.

From The Heroic Women of Early Indiana Methodism: An Address Delivered Before the Indiana Methodist Historical Society by Goodwin, T. A. (Thomas Aiken)

For M. de Brevan was triumphing last night.

From The Clique of Gold by Gaboriau, Émile

The western sky was triumphing, clouds of purple and of crimson lifting one above another about a golden centre.

From The House of Fulfilment by Martin, George Madden

Sleepy Eyes alone dared to stand and gaze upon the tempest which was triumphing over all the powers of nature.

From Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling by Eastman, Mary H. (Mary Henderson)