exultant

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• He’d had just two hours of sleep, and not in his own bed, because there were bodies strewn all over his home, he said, exultant family members who had fallen on whatever pillow they happened to grab, so he crawled into his daughter’s room.

• The circulation boys fell on our paper with exultant gurgles, and the next night we lifted the press run by 10,000 copies.

• In the clubhouse afterward, Ruth was naturally exultant over his 60th homer.

• I spoke to him after the bill passed in December and he was exultant, feeling he had accomplished something of lasting value.

• The day he wins the Pulitzer Prize, I call him again, exultant.

• There was a scuffle, and Black Sheep was torn off the body by Harry and some colleagues, and cuffed home tingling but exultant.

• Waiting until an exultant roar of applause had died away, he delivered his most effective hit.

• Her mood was almost exultant, though she had been gloomy enough when I first disturbed her.

• He was exultant from the standpoint of a happy spiritual experience and triumphant as he gazed beyond this mortal life.

• His eyes snapped vindictively as he watched the exultant ruffians.