jubilant - use in sentences

Preposition: at

  • result: Respect supporters last night were jubilant at the result.

Modifies a noun

  • mood: Trotsky was in a good, not to say jubilant, mood.
  • crowd: The Times's leader writer also hymned the victory: " Jubilant crowds emerged on the streets.
  • celebration: New Year's Eve in Berlin is a jubilant celebration for the reunified Germans.
  • scene: The lack of jubilant scenes meant that the American troops needed pictures of Iraqis who in different ways demonstrated hatred for Saddam's regime.
  • fan: In Berlin the woodpecker Gunnar is hoisted up into the air by jubilant fans taking him to be Brehme.
  • supporter: Jubilant supporters of Mr Arrian last night celebrated the news.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: Yet this isn't making many Labor voters feel jubilant.
  • sound: If I'm sounding jubilant about this little victory it is not because I personally have anything against Uri Geller.
  • return: The flight crews returned jubilant that their missions had been successful.

Infinitive complement

  • see: Last year he left under circumstances that have never been explained, but the staff were jubilant to see him go.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: Perhaps had we known what the future held we should not have been so jubilant.
  • very: Disappointing to watch from the sidelines but nonetheless proud to be part of the squad and of course very jubilant to see them win.
  • quietly: The announcement cleaved the audience in two, Alun's supporters quietly jubilant, Rhodri's deeply resentful.
  • rather: Worship in meetings flows freely, and praise tends to be rather jubilant!
  • now: But Mrs Trudi White, a Hockerton Housing Project resident, said the mood at the development was now jubilant.

Preposition: in

  • assembly: The boys were jubilant in final assembly when the final.. .

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