Sample sentences for EBULLIENT

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Definition

happy and energetic

ebullient = filled with energy and joy

ebullience = joyous energy

Miss Riley taught our class without her usual ebullience, the corners of her mouth turned down.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

ebullience = being happy and energetic

ebullient = happy and energetic

"She was so charming, I simply must do something for her," cried Marie in ebullient French.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

ebullient = happy and energetic

Some of his e-mails were ebullient:
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

ebullient = happy and energetic

By turns he could be affectionate or morose, reserved or ebullient.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End

ebullient = happy and energetic

...the ebullient Bangladeshi professor who much later won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microfinance.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

ebullient = happy and energetic

He was extremely nervous and extremely jealous of other tenors and he covered his nervous jealousy with an ebullient friendliness.
James Joyce -- Dubliners

ebullient = happy and energetic

Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children,
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

ebullience = joyous enthusiasm

One day the manager of Webster Clothes, a menswear store across the road, had come into the drugstore and, admiring Kathy's ebullient personality, asked her if she'd be willing to quit KB or, if not, take a second job at Webster.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

ebullient = happy and energetic

The College of Cardinals bristled with ebullience and electricity as they streamed back into the Sistine Chapel.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
It was like a stroll through her ebullient erotic mind.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
Glenn Gould at the piano, wild-haired, ebullient, head thrown back, emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
From the crafty ebullience of a rakshasa with a new idea into a gossipy Malayali with a scandal to spread.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Ebullient and direct, she'd grown up in northern California, where her father had introduced her to camping, hiking, and skiing as a young girl.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
His feet he pulled proudly up in a high-kicking march of victory - an ebullient, primitive goose-step.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
He received Martin with no vast ebullience, and his stare said, "Well, what do you want?
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Behrens was so pleased and flattered that he was almost ebullient.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
His mood had turned from ebullient to despairing; she had pushed him past a breaking point.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

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