How To Use Exultant In A Sentence
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The Holy Man, with an air of supreme exhaustion and supreme ecstasy, reclad himself in his white mantle, and the faithful ones wiped their brows, and re-squatting on the ground exultantly vociferated _Allah_ about a hundred times, nodding their heads, and finally changing their cry into _Bou!
Without Prejudice
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The opera houses of Charles Garnier in Paris and Gottfried Semper in Dresden are memorable precisely because their expressive physiognomy is a kind of exultant precis of the spaces and happenings within.
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The flowers direct the eye upward past a small, brooding view of Toledo - at which point the picture seems to burst into an exultant heavenly space.
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I can't see why every party newspaper instead finds it necessary to display exultant, triumphant headlines after each election.
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In the city editor's cubby-hole, Bill Rankin was talking exultantly to his chief.
Dear Carl
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But I just want to indulge in a bit of pure, exultant joy!
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The young gentleman uttered this exultant sound with mysterious significance.
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It was a celebratory, sedate, courtly dance: exultant outstretched jumps, falling, turning and an eloquent reflection on the crucifixion.
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It also means that if all the ‘experts’ rave on about a particular album, I'm on pretty shaky ground if I go overboard criticising it, or at the least, am less than exultant about it.
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At the core of the Sukkot observance is the recitation of Hallel (psalms sung as expressions of exultant thanks), and the shaking of the lulav and etrog (a bundle of plants symbolizing life, abundance and thanks).
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Expanding Circles Of Thanks
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A long time afterward she recalled his exultant exclamation, checked at its outset -- recalled it with a perfect sense of understanding.
Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
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Hush, honey," Blue Dave cried, as exultantly as a child; "'fo' dey gits ter de big gate, I'll know deze yer bosses better dan ef dey wuz my br'er.
Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White
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His proclamation? "he added as with a kind of exultant war-cry he drew a roll of paper from his pocket and held it out at arm's length above his head," his proclamation?
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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And then, he thought, it would be simply delightful to sit in a room in a quiet farmhouse and hear the gentle moaning of calves and the cheerful cackle of exultant hens, as he wrote items in a book about eggs and things, and drink buttermilk, instead of toiling in the ill-smelling trade-room on board the _Palestine_, bottling off Queensland rum and opening tierces of negrohead tobacco, while the brig was either standing on her head or rolling her soul out, and Packenham the skipper was using shocking language to everyone on deck.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
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One was an exultant's with blazonings painted on the doors and palfreniers in fanciful liveries, but the other two were fiacres, small and plain.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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Cy was exultant after watching Ed, my club's best player, hornswoggle a good declarer out of a vulnerable game.
Bridge
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His face was alight with an exultant expression.
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The crowds were cheering insanely now, spurred onwards by the exultant actions of the boys, jumping around excitedly.
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The exultant father, from his place in the Senate, expressed his thanks to Theodoric in an oration of panegyric, which is now no longer extant, but was considered by contemporaries a masterpiece of brilliant rhetoric.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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The euphoria of victory before an exultant home crowd was diluted when the Saints followed up by losing to North Melbourne by 92 points.
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At a sharp bend of the road, which effectually revealed the foremost of these cottages, distant less than two kilometres now, the younger of the two men drew rein suddenly, and lifting his hat with outstretched arm high above his head, he gave a long sigh which ended in a kind of exultant call of joy.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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Few comment on childcare shortages unless trumpeting their own exultant babysitting skills, even less on mothers' health, unless comparing personal symptoms.
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In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consquences attendant upon it, he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves.
Rogue Of Gor
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Here, most of the music is exultant and exhilarating, full of polyrhythms that inspire the vocalists to slip and slide over the beats.
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Yet, the phenomenon itself has foreign policy implications -- as does the probable outcome wherein exultant Republicans hold at least one House of Congress and a timorous White House says and does as little as possible to avoid making them even more hostile than they are.
Michael Brenner: America and the World -- Post November 2nd
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So they rode in majestically, always just ahead of the breaker, carried shorewards by its mighty impulse at the rate of forty miles an hour, yet seeming to have a volition of their own, as the more daring riders knelt and even stood on their surf-boards, waving their arms and uttering exultant cries.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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But beneath the exultant mood, trouble was brewing.
Times, Sunday Times
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There must be a kind of exultant defiance as well – don't you feel?
Bliss, and Other Stories
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The instrumentation is heavier now, with trumpet figures and the addition of bass and snare drums lending almost the flavor of an operatic drinking song as the exultant "release" theme, opening with three bright high C-sharps on the violins, piccolo and flute, is answered by a vigorous rising gesture by the cellos and basses fortified by the bass trombone.
The Waltz That Defines Vienna
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As the election results came in, her mood became exultant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dobbin is rescued from the (fence) stake to hie hill-ward with his master, cantering exultant or jogging grumly according to the result of the "event;" and the metropolis of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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It was a decisive campaign, in which the better prepared side struck hard and fast, and delivered its exultant people a smashing victory which promised salvation from their enemies.
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As the election results came in, her mood became exultant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Audiences feel appropriately claustrophobic in the close-up jail sequences, and appropriately exultant when Flynt's lawyer wins his case in front of the Supreme Court.
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Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, in exultant recognition of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, embodied the spirit of that nostalgic period.
Responsible Nationhood
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Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive.
The Shadow of the Torturer
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The exultant crowds were dancing in the streets.
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The normally exultant cheers of a vast Scottish Grand National crowd were muted because the splendour of a truly great race was bought at a very dear price.
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The play opened last January to exultant ovations.
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But beneath the exultant mood, trouble was brewing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ranged before the exultant children's minister was a rapt host of 700 local officials who are extending her childcare empire across the country.
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The machine moves steadily and inexorably through cutting and tunnel, over viaducts and under bridges, exultantly ignoring sun and storm alike.
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But whoever it is, waving to the exultant crowds, he will have become a legend.
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The chorus of the piece - a reprise of Allien's introduction replete with the now introduced elements is a exultant mélange of avant-pop songwriting.
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Chelsea set aside the mouthwatering prospect of the Champions League draw against Barcelona to return to their bread and butter and produced a goal feast for an exultant crowd.
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Quite so," Cope acknowledged, in a kind of exultant excitation.
Bertram Cope's Year
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You can't frighten me, dearest, _dearest_!" she said exultantly.
The Opened Shutters
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What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification.
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When he rolls across the finish line, we're exultant.
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Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
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He confessed that after two days of the Games, and two gold medals on the opening night before an exultant home crowd, he was mentally drained when he faced van den Hoogenband on the third day.
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What else could they suppose of the president of an Alpine Club, a renowned ascensionist, of whom his friends spoke only with "Ahs!" and exultant gestures.
Tartarin On The Alps
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After a while the crowd broke out into a kind of exultant applause.
A Red Death
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Panting and bleeding lies the South, victorious and exultant is the North, and, let us say it with all respect, not without some grim generosity in her triumph.
Echoes of the Week
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The splash headline in the virulently anti-war Independent was exultant.
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Hush, honey," Blue Dave cried, as exultantly as a child; "'fo' dey gits ter de big gate, I'll know deze yer bosses better dan ef dey wuz my br'er.
Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White
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The clown was capering under the lamp, waving his fists exultantly above his head.
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But whoever it is, waving to the exultant crowds, he will have become a legend.
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Christian faith may teach us, that the state of the soul is vastly more important than the disposal made of the material form, and that he who has Christian faith will think only of the soul of his departed friend; that, in his view, the body will be only the deserted cell, the cast-off fetter, the forgotten aurelia of the released, the exultant spirit.
The blessed dead waiting for us : a sermon preached in St. James' Church, Marietta, Georgia, on the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1863,
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At the time, he was a Boatswain 3rd Class assigned to a minesweeper called the Exultant.
Montauk Link to '92 Murder
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Downstairs, another large, white-walled gallery displayed photographs from Life magazine - not all exultant, but most of them proud and tough.
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True, he sometimes felt an unexpected sense of exultant extra life onstage.
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The young gentleman uttered this exultant sound with mysterious significance.
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Guitars are used sparingly, but they ring with precision and elegance, dropping tones as if laying bones to rest beneath a crowd of exultant mourners.
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But Trotsky's faith in the socialist future, and his exultant delight in life, survived all failure.
