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Example sentences for: joy

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

The South China Morning Post described scenes of "unconfined joy" and "delight" at the arrival of the People's Liberation Army, and according to Britain's Independent , "[a]lmost everyone agreed that China's resumption of sovereignty would help wipe out a turf war that has gripped Macau's gambling industry and sparked 39 triad gangster killings this year alone."
He is a joy to work with and is very professional.
Using no words at all, you can express joy, sorrow, anger, disgust, skepticism, ridicule, criticism, fear, and many other emotions.
Proof of this can be seen in a recent Diary article by Ruth Dudley Edwards [ The Independent , 23 January 1995, p. 13] in which she quotes, with inexpressible joy, the following passage from Angela Thirkell's The Brandons :
To thoughtful quiz participants (thoughtful in the sense of "acutely thinking," not in the sense of "considerately sending a Hanukkah gift to the quiz wrangler whose shirt size is 15/34 and whose liquor size is one liter), chills can be induced by both fear and joy, particularly erotic joy.