Example sentences for: elation

How can you use “elation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That elation was followed at once by the ineluctable conviction that the other submissions must have been very bad for my poor effort to have taken the prize, and my feelings about the story have vacillated between those extremes ever since.

  • The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.

  • But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack.

  • The medication--by design--diminishes many of the qualities that helped Tyson to reach the top of his game, including feelings of increased energy, invulnerability, elation, exhilaration, inflated self-esteem, hostility, and violence.

  • So the Cappadoras' elation at the return of their son is gradually eroded by the realization that their boy still thinks of George as his real father.


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