Example sentences for: rejoicing

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

  • It's been interesting to me, for example, that after all the rejoicing about how nice it is to have Jordan back in the NBA just a year after his retirement as a player, the next thing that most of his fans fretted about was whether his involvement with the sad-sack Wizards will eventually cloud his legend.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , "The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales."

  • 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."


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