Example sentences for: elation

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Zucker remembered the elation he felt in law school, when he helped resolve a landlord-tenant dispute while volunteering at a legal aid program.

  • Do you remember the combination of elation and apprehension you felt when you first left home?

  • Because of the nature of my own work, I read little fiction and write virtually none, though a few years ago I did win first prize in England for a short story: the first prize was a dinner for two at a country restaurant I shall not identify; I have a feeling that the second prize was a dinner for four at the same restaurant, but that did nothing to diminish my elation at having won.


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