Sample Sentences for
elated
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    Hedge charged forward with an elated "Woot!"  (source)
    elated = expressing excitement and even joy
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    She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had. And all at once she was elated.  (source)
    elated = extremely happy and excited
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    He had thought that he would feel elated if they managed to steal back the Horcrux, but somehow he did not; all he felt... was worry about what would happen next.  (source)
    elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
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    They were so elated by their own hospitality, and by all the goodies waiting inside, that they did not take a good look at their guests while they sang.  (source)
    elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
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    As she thumbed through the documents, the elation on her face dissolved into frustration.  (source)
    elation = happiness and excitement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses.†  (source)
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    Surveying this harvest of shirts and cigarette lighters, expensive machinery and cheap cuff links, Perry felt elatedly tall-now Mexico, a new chance, a "really living" life.†  (source)
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    No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.†  (source)
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    Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.†  (source)
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    They pant for an opportunity of revenging that humiliation; and if a contest, ending in a victory on their part, should ensue, elating them in their turn, and leaving its cursed legacy of hatred and rage behind to us, there is no end to the so-called glory and shame, and to the alternations of successful and unsuccessful murder, in which two high-spirited nations might engage.†  (source)
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    The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.  (source)
    elated = made to feel happy and excited
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    But in his sudden elation, Jemmy banged into the wall with the birdcage.  (source)
    elation = intense feeling of happiness and excitement
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    She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate.†  (source)
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