Example sentences for: rejoicing

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

  • When Malcolm, rejoicing over a plane crash that killed 120 white Atlantans, chalked the disaster up to "our God" and hoped that "every day another plane falls out of the sky," King could only reply, feebly, "I would certainly disagree with him."

  • The Turkish Daily News quoted British Prime Minister Tony Blair as bizarrely describing the EU communiqué on Turkey as "[a] way for Europe not to turn its back, but its face to Turkey," and an unnamed EU spokeswoman as saying, even more bizarrely: "If this was a fair world, Turks would have been rejoicing in Ankara."

  • In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Sing: "Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over."

  • Goldberger, while rejoicing that sophisticated design has finally reached the American masses, rightly lamented that it has come at the price of individual variation and taste.

  • The Israeli anniversary was the subject of front-page stories and editorials throughout Europe Thursday, many of them emphasizing current tensions within Israel at least as much as the reasons for rejoicing.


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