elate
Example Sentences
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And if you can hear a song as irresistible as “Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” and not feel your soul elate, you may be a stranger to joy.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2020
McQueen worked the way a dreaming brain does, transmuting suppressed instinct into images that can trouble, mystify, and elate.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
“One lives in hope that music is more than mere noise, filling up idle time, whether intending to elate or lament,” he added.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2010
Only the most violent of shocks now could shake or elate the nation.
From Time Magazine Archive
She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
