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/ɪɡˈzəɫtɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
a triumphal success
a triumphant shout
rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day
How To Use exulting In A Sentence
- For all I knew, God partook of our sins and laughed in secret from the dark caverns of the rubber plantations, exulting shamelessly in his double-facedness.
- Alberta teachers weren't the only ones exulting in their court victory last week.
- The morning dawned upon them in a narrow rambla, its bottom formed of broken rocks, where once had raved along the mountain-torrent, while above there beetled great arid cliffs, over the brows of which they beheld the turbaned heads of their fierce and exulting foes. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
- To them it will be inexplicable that this man, with his health and his millions, could not go on living as his class lived, keeping regular hours at desk and stock exchange, driving close contracts, underbidding his competitors, and exulting in the business disasters of his fellows. Fomá Gordyéeff
- It looks as if we had run our fox to earth," cried Fred exultingly, as they made for the gateway of the high wooden stockade -- relic of the old fighting days -- which surrounded the _kainga_. Adventures in Many Lands
- And of course, the darkly comic thing about it is that, less than a year ago, some conservatives were "exulting" over the tea parties, believing they brought needed energy to a movement demoralized by its 2008 shellacking at the polls. Spokesman.com: Latest stories
- it was exultingly easy
- Her loquacity was a never-ending joke to Madeleine Lowder and her husband, who were exulting in a couple of deft, silent, expensive The Squirrel-Cage
- “I one morning called upon him, however, and found him infinitely better than I had expected; and, in a kind of exulting style, he exclaimed, ‘Here are some of the best of my prose writings; I have been hard at work since midnight, and I desire you to examine them.’ The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
- Glasmont, the seat of John Morris, Esq. the carriage had been drawn through the town by a choice body of exulting tars; and, after being regaled with his friends, by the portreeve, his lordship, and Sir The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2