exultance

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Though Degas demonstrates ballet’s beauty here, he traces no exultance in her; and meanwhile, he allows us to feel kinesthetically just how each muscle is operating.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

Her expression was a most imprudent betrayal; it clearly told, by its acerbity and exultance, that she held the present occasion to be one of prodigious and triumphant import.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

At once the melancholy in Lad's deep eyes gave place to puppy-like exultance.

From Further Adventures of Lad by Terhune, Albert Payson

He could hardly exaggerate the peril he had 72 incurred, and the touch of exultance with which he described his defeat of the murderer was quite pardonable in a tenderfoot.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George