rejoicing

How To Use rejoicing In A Sentence

• Finding a job should have been an occasion for rejoicing.
• Doctor Marchmont smiled, but rather pensively than rejoicingly; and Camilla
• For all their rejoicing, these women did not look forward to imprisonment!
• In Britain, America, and France, the end of the war was remembered as a time of rejoicing.
• There was great rejoicing (it was due in a while ago). Times, Sunday Times
• What would be the point of Blackburn fans rejoicing in the victory over the ‘old enemy’ if many can't be bothered to cheer the side on to a potential semi-final clash at the Millennium Stadium?
• He also said cheap flights should be a cause for rejoicing.
• Their memories of the past will necessarily be plural as well as conflicting, bringing with them both joy and sorrow, both rejoicing and mourning, both happiness as well as despondency.
• Finding a job should have been an occasion for rejoicing.
• The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith