How to Use exult in a Sentence

exult

verb
  • In different times, the result might have been cause to exult.
    — Glenn Gamboa, ajc, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Prince exults in the cheers from the Coachella crowd in 2008.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Sometimes the fairies write back — on slips of birch bark, tucked into the crevice of a log for children to find and exult over.
    — Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The war was needed so that a bunch of animals could simply exult in glory.
    — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 27 June 2023
  • Never mind the fault in our stars (though one character gets cancer as well), this is a book that exults in them.
    — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • His constituents exulted when he was thrown out of Congress by his colleagues.
    — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Riding was mostly a sport of well-off young men, and riders exulted at the dual feelings of speed and height.
    — Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Elon Musk exulted in swinging his chainsaw.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The day when artists and audiences can breathe and exult together in the same room is getting ever closer.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • Tameilau drove in for a hoop, scoring while drawing the foul as Blythe exulted on the Eastside bench.
    — John Reid, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2017
  • My assignment was to ruminate on the quiet, to contemplate it, and if all went well, to exult in it.
    — Matt Crossman, Midwest Living, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Toronto fans were on their feet, preparing to exult in the team’s first Series win in 32 years.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Ronaldo, though, clearly wanted to exult just a little more in victory.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • On social media, at least, Trump's loyal if rather narrow core group of supporters seemed to exult.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The duo exulted in success and strove to support a young family in a fickle industry.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The album also exults in musical zingers, non sequiturs and startling off-grid eruptions.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • To watch her extraordinary third feature is to exult in the obvious fact that Fastvold is one of them.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Dec. 2025
  • And anyone with a sense of humor will exult in the poetically minded butler.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Cities up and down America’s Eastern Seaboard exulted over the news.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This one, Washington’s fourth this season, left you feeling agita rather than exulted.
    — David Aldridge, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Kent doesn’t exult in the wide majesty of the forests, but rather conveys the ominous trees surrounding Clare and Billy on all sides.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2019
  • And when Mostert scored his fourth touchdown of the day, on a 22-yard run midway through the third quarter, the linemen again exulted.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Close chances and corresponding roars continued, the crowd exulting in a moment long overdue.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Wooldridge’s message mentioned Paul the Apostle’s exulting in the principles of faith, hope and love.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Bobby Butler went last, and when Francouz rebuffed him, the Czechs exulted.
    — Adam Kilgore, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The whoop, the sound of exulting Moby-Dick nuts, goes raggedly around the galleries and hallways of the museum.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Much of the team—hell, much of the entire operation—looked on reporters as rats in the corncrib, just waiting for the ultimate failure in which to exult.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 14 July 2017
  • As the full cast settled in for the final, Mitchell-honoring stretch, the central guest of honor exulted in the accolades.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Edwards had raised Chris and Erin, loved them, encouraged them, worried about them, and exulted in their triumphs, large and small, like any good mother would.
    — Zoe Greenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In Hungary and Poland the right exults in blood-and-soil nationalism, which excludes and discriminates.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019

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