How to Use jubilant in a Sentence

jubilant

adjective
  • The best dress came out in a jubilant bright red.
    — Gretta Monahan, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The mood was low-key but jubilant.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Those jubilant scenes at the end were in part born out of relief.
    — Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Oil traders weren’t so jubilant.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Groom was jubilant, looking for the bride, nowhere to be found.
    — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 14 May 2018
  • There are quirky, fun, jubilant vibes, but then there are some extreme lows.
    — Dina Gachman Daniel Arnold, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • The mood at the auction house was jubilant.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • People that came, and that was their choice, of course, were so jubilant to be there.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 8 May 2020
  • The night was a mix of jubilant reunions and raw emotion.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The whole set was a jubilant Malaysian dance party.
    — Deborah Sengupta Stith, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The mood was jubilant, except for a moment when yelling was heard in the back of the gym.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The huge smile on his face showed how much the goal meant to him as he was engulfed by his jubilant teammates.
    — Miami Herald, 6 July 2025
  • When the moon finally flitted across the face of the sun, jubilant cheers rang out.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Apr. 2024
  • On the House floor one year ago, Democrats were jubilant in defeat.
    — Alex Daugherty and David Smiley, miamiherald, 4 May 2018
  • Bellinger pointed into the jubilant Dodgers dugout all the way to first base.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Video images showed jubilant crowds taking a dip in the garden pool.
    — Krishan Francis, ajc, 9 July 2022
  • The own goal sparked jubilant scenes on the pitch and among the Iranian fans in the stands.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 15 June 2018
  • Right away, the concert is jubilant, the singers bursting with smiles and dancing along with the tunes.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025
  • Their normally jubilant star point guard, though, had been left behind.
    — Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • In the meantime, the North was jubilant at the news of the arrests of the diplomats.
    — Zaakir Tameez june 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • Dani Carvajal slumped to the field and was piled on by jubilant teammates.
    — Apress, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • But Smith, a Loyalist, may not have been in as jubilant a mood as his guests.
    — Victoria Flexner, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • To that end, the mood outside the concert in Madrid for the opening night of the tour was jubilant.
    — Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This year, the two embraced after the Pirates star gave a jubilant fist pump.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Each month, Zone brings foreign DJs to play for jubilant crowds.
    — Sarah Souli, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Their gazes meet the jubilant crowd who are dancing while holding choripán and bottles of Quilmes beer.
    — Matt Dursum, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Workers pulled a man in his 30s out of the ruins as a jubilant crowd burst into cheers and tears.
    — Phaedra Singelis, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Even with those sobering notes, many Democrats in Texas and beyond were jubilant.
    — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Footage showed people in a jubilant mood taking a dip in the garden pool of the residence.
    — Krishan Francis, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • Abbott’s blood spatters all over Nile’s face, which looks almost jubilant in the act.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025

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