[ US /ˈdʒɔɪ/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒˈɔ‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the emotion of great happiness
  2. something or someone that provides a source of happiness
    the pleasure of his company
    the new car is a delight
    a joy to behold
VERB
  1. feel happiness or joy
  2. make glad or happy
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How To Use joy In A Sentence

  • In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
  • Butterflies enjoy the daisy family too, and there are a few that they especially love. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The thing is, a lot of people find a motor home vacation more enjoyable.
  • The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
  • ‘I want to come back when it's a bit quieter,’ I shouted over the din of amplified music, throbbing diesel generators and rattling joy rides.
  • I'm currently enjoying the odd effect of chancing across spoken word excerpts in the original Italian.
  • To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
  • Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight. Michael O'Halloran
  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
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