Sample Sentences for
jubilant
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    But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.  (source)
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    Jem picked up a rock and threw it jubilantly at the carhouse.  (source)
    jubilantly = joyfully
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    He had expected to hear cheer of triumph and jubilation at his death,  (source)
    jubilation = high-spirited delight
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    But he knew his days at Trinity would be numbered if he walked into that group of jubilant guys and told them to erase the fifty beside his name.  (source)
    jubilant = high-spirited and delighted
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    I felt their arms around my neck, their hugs and the marvelous jubilation of reunion.  (source)
    jubilation = high-spirited delight
    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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    "We are going to be the best of friends," said Gilbert, jubilantly.†  (source)
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    (Throwing back her head with jubilance) Praise God!  (source)
    jubilance = happiness and joy
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    Though this sudden setback of the plague was as welcome as it was unlooked-for, our townsfolk were in no hurry to jubilate.†  (source)
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    And after glaring at me wildly he would go on, jubilating and sneering.†  (source)
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    And Ahab, he too was standing on his quarter-deck, shaggy and black, with a stubborn gloom; and as the two ships crossed each other's wakes—one all jubilations for things passed, the other all forebodings as to things to come—their two captains in themselves impersonated the whole striking contrast of the scene.†  (source)
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    Her jubilant feet came suddenly to a halt.†  (source)
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    In Ramallah and Jericho there was jubilation.†  (source)
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    I used to wish that I were more like my Jewish and Italian friends, or even the black kids who hung out in front of my father's stores; I was envious of how they'd speak so confidently, so jubilantly celebrate the fact with their hands and hips and tongues, letting it all hang out (though of course in different ways) for anybody who'd look and listen.†  (source)
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