REJOICE in a Sentence

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140 example sentences for REJOICE, such as:

1. His family rejoiced at the news.
2. Julia could rejoice that he was gone.
3. It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
4. I always rejoice in my comrades' achievements.
5. The announcement was met with general rejoicing.

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 Meanings and Examples of REJOICE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rejoice
 v.  feel joy; experience gladness in a high degree; have pleasurable satisfaction; be delighted; enjoy
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1  Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  Julia could rejoice that he was gone.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  With a purer spirit did Fanny rejoice in the intelligence.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  Mary was in a state of mind to rejoice in a connexion with the Bertram family, and to be not displeased with her brother's marrying a little beneath him.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  Well might his sister, believing as she really did that his opinion of Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  How they might be benefited, how they must rejoice in such an establishment for you, is nothing to you.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had heard them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  With all my soul I wish them happy, and rejoice over every circumstance in favour of it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
9  An account of the concert was immediately claimed; and Anne's recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her features and make her rejoice to talk of it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  However, I rejoice to say that I have a hated rival, who will certainly cut me out the instant that my back is turned.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
11  I rejoice, however, to perceive that he wrote with a broad-pointed quill pen, and I can hardly doubt that we will find some impression upon this blotting-pad.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
12  Then they all sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over the king's absence, and those who rejoice at it because they can eat up his property without paying for it.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
13  Good heavens," he exclaimed, "what a day I am enjoying: I do indeed rejoice at it.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
14  Yes, indeed, his friends may well rejoice in his having met with one of the very few sensible women who would have accepted him, or have made him happy if they had.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 32
15  With assumed tranquillity he then replied: "I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success."
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
Example Sentence:
1  I always rejoice in my comrades' achievements.
2  The global community has joined together in rejoicing at the rescue of 33 Chilean miners.
3  The announcement was met with general rejoicing.
4  Party activists in New Hampshire rejoiced that the presidential campaign had finally started.
5  Everyone rejoiced at the news of his safe return.
6  The news of victory rejoiced the heart of the whole nation.
7  His family rejoiced at the news.
8  It is a poor heart that never rejoices.