Example sentences for: triumphalist

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

  • These have ranged from the triumphalist (such as Jay Winik's On the Brink , a hagiographic account of the Reagan-era officials he sees as the Cold War's victors) to the tendentious (say, Peter Schweizer's simplistic Victory , giving all the credit, again, to Reagan) to the thoughtful (such as We Now Know , by the dean of Cold War historians, John Lewis Gaddis).

  • That the newly hatched butterfly that is Hillary's psyche seems to be fluttering straight into the flames of New York State politics and Rudolph Giuliani's popularity does not conform to Sheehy's triumphalist narrative, so although she discusses what Hillary's candidacy means to Hillary, Sheehy doesn't give us a single outside perspective on it.

  • [Correction 11/12: An earlier version of this item ended on the triumphalist note that the L.A.

  • a) Less "triumphalist," more "serious and sober."


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