REJOICING in a Sentence

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140 example sentences for REJOICING, such as:

1. His family rejoiced at the news.
2. It is a poor heart that never rejoices.
3. There was some grim rejoicing by the men.
4. I always rejoice in my comrades' achievements.
5. The announcement was met with general rejoicing.

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 Meanings and Examples of REJOICING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rejoicing
 a.  of rejoice; feeling and expression of joy and gladness; procedure expressive of joy; festivity
Classic Sentence: (132 in 9 pages)
1  What they were to give, neither heard, for both crept into the dark hall, and, sitting on the stairs, held each other close, rejoicing with hearts too full for words.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
2  The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
3  The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  And then this money came only to me: not to me and a rejoicing family, but to my isolated self.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  She then ran gaily off, rejoicing as she rambled about, in the hope of being at home again in a day or two.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
6  In a moment they were all out of the chaise, rejoicing at the sight of each other.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
7  This was enough to prove that her approbation need not be doubted: and Elizabeth, rejoicing that such an effusion was heard only by herself, soon went away.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59
8  Lady Catherine had been rendered so exceedingly angry by the contents of her nephew's letter, that Charlotte, really rejoicing in the match, was anxious to get away till the storm was blown over.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60
9  There was universal rejoicing in that holiday season, rejoicing and thankfulness that the tide was turning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  He slipped his arm about Carol's shoulder; he went down to supper rejoicing that he was cleansed of perilous stuff.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Lord and master over all this scene, the captain stood erect on the ship's elevated quarter-deck, so that the whole rejoicing drama was full before him, and seemed merely contrived for his own individual diversion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor.
12  This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of excitement.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  There was some grim rejoicing by the men.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  They were breathlessly intent upon keeping the ground and thrusting away the rejoicing body of the enemy.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  But Mnestheus, rejoicing and flushed by his triumph, with oars fast-dipping and winds at his call, issues into the shelving water and runs down the open sea.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
Example Sentence:
1  The global community has joined together in rejoicing at the rescue of 33 Chilean miners.
2  The announcement was met with general rejoicing.
3  I always rejoice in my comrades' achievements.
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.