How to Use exultant in a Sentence

exultant

adjective
  • The crowd let out an exultant cheer.
  • Researchers are exultant over the new discovery.
  • The captain sank to his knees on the halfway line, mobbed by his exultant team-mates.
    — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • The captain sank to his knees on the halfway line, mobbed by his exultant team-mates.
    — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • Exultant armies and militias now occupy the ground once held by the caliphate.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2017
  • All these works — even the obsessive and eerie ones — feel somehow exultant.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • As a kind of human pace car, Timberlake set a goofy, exultant tone.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Romero said of that moment of achievement that was neither joyful nor exultant.
    — Marcos Bretón, sacbee.com, 12 June 2017
  • Their exultant high had been cruelly dashed in a crazy period of just six minutes.
    — Don Riddell, CNN, 22 May 2020
  • The sensation was that of Beethoven coming straight at you, no ducking, which could be both exultant and crude.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Infantino, who now resides in Qatar, offered exultant praise for his hosts.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Sweets are thrust into the mouths of exultant opposition politicians as the cameras look on.
    — Omar Waraich, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
  • Thomas first shows up on her Instagram page that February, in an exultant post from a ski area.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • After two days of hiking, the pilgrims arrived in Chartres looking sweaty and exultant.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Amid the exultant lawyers and friends, Carson mostly sat quietly.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
  • When a bullet from Franco ricochets off a pot, Root is exultant.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
  • This is a moving, ultimately exultant novel that will stay with you long after the final words have been uttered.
    — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Dan Hurley, whose loss is the Eagles’ gain, was exultant on social media after the news broke.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
  • What Joiner found was the terrifying, exultant beauty of the desert.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The Georgia coaches were exultant.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Yet the exultant statistics of sports provide only mild diversion from the grim statistics of war.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2022
  • Among the team’s most exultant fans was Eddie Vedder, the frontman for Pearl Jam.
    — Daniel M. Gold, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Paris became the center of the world, and Stardust provided the exultant soundtrack.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 June 2019
  • Scalise’s exultant appearance marked his first return to the House since the June 14 shooting.
    — Adam Edelman, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Branch said one final time, then jumped into the air a few times before disappearing into a mass of teammates — exultant, relieved and … lucky.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The real-world Everett has a brashly self-confident voice, put to work on exultant songs about seeking and finding pleasure.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Their own path was charted years ago by clotheshorses and exultant dressers André 3000 and Diddy.
    — Samuel Hine, GQ, 14 May 2018
  • The central government is exultant, since the project which irrigates Beijing was built at vast cost and against some opposition.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • This is why iconoclasts like Fuentes and Jones have often seemed more exultant than angry since Election Day.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
  • But all are written in Chinese, so virtually nobody from Kazakhstan has a clue to the exultant message.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018

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