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How to use the word elation in a Sentence?

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It’s actually crazy pervasive, this image, he had so much passion and if you really look around this exhibit, you’ll see this image that’s associated with him – grabbing his shirt, in kind of elation, and it’s become so iconic.

Brahm Wachter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He had so much passion and if you really look around this exhibit, you’ll see this image that’s associated with him – grabbing his shirt, in kind of elation, and it’s become so iconic.

Brahm Wachter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was total elation because Gasteranthus extinctus is a symbol of these unique forests.

Dawson White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The presentation ceremony was n’t what it could have been, i sat next to Roberto and did what I could to console him. There’s video of me patting him on the leg. I felt no elation, nothing like you ’d expect from winning the biggest tournament of your life. It was awkward. It was tragic for Roberto, but it was equally unfortunate for me.

Bob Goalby

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was an elation to see you get a touchdown in a playoff game, i mean oh my gosh, how good did that feel? How good does that feel after all these years?

Donna Kelce

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While we welcome enthusiastic fan engagement, we regret that a moment of high elation and pent-up emotion by spectators on the 18th hole... briefly overwhelmed security and made two players and their caddies feel vulnerable, we always put player safety at the top of our list and are grateful that order was restored.

Seth Waugh

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity

Socrates

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

There aren't words in the English language to describe the level of relief and elation experienced by the Thomas family, now begins another hard chapter, but for now, we celebrate.

Jason Whatley

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There's always that sense of elation that comes with going home but then it goes away and you are left alone with your thoughts. You realize that you don't have your Marines watching your back and you're still having nightmares and you think to yourself 'Holy crap! Where's my gun?'.

Jason Haag

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We approached the casting of the role cautiously, wanting to find an actor who could portray the right amount of compassion and humanity, juan Pablo Di Pace really is amazing. He brings such heart and soul to the series, and, I think, his relationship with the disciples is very evident -- first expressed through their heartache at the loss of him and then expressed through their elation at his resurrection and return to them.

Roma Downey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Agnes Repplier

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Socrates

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Socrates

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.

Tom Fitzgerald

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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