Joy in a sentence 🔊

(intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice. | (transitive, archaic) To enjoy. | (transitive, obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.

Short Example Sentences for Joy

9. In the autumn of his life he found joy his youth had never known. 🔊
10. The others lost their grip early, and their joy along with it. 🔊
11. My own joy was unbounded, and that of my brothers and sisters was hardly less. 🔊
12. November was a month of kaleidoscopic sorrow and joy for the British. 🔊
13. His simple pleasure touched Corinna like the artless joy of a child. 🔊
14. Ah, well, we can't always be young and full of the pure joy of living. 🔊

1. His joy in the torment of the patient was natural, for the world he lived in was a world of pain. 🔊
2. It was a joy to him, if we had been out late in the evening, to run across us as we returned. 🔊
3. He endured the cross, despising the shame, in view of the unbounded joy that was set before him. 🔊
4. When he had finished, her eyes, though bedewed with tears, were shining with joy and pride. 🔊
5. The laborers were permitted to follow me, and we resumed with joy our road towards Tusculum. 🔊
6. Philippa was at times unusually silent, but Helen had expanded in the joy of her great happiness. 🔊
7. Success and failure, despair and hope, joy and sorrow, lie within and not without us. 🔊
8. Everything around looked and breathed of Bianca; hope and joy flushed in my bosom at every step. 🔊

9. Your presence, company, and conversation, Come where you will, bring joy and pleasure with them. 🔊
10. Wolfert's heart leaped with joy at having met with so learned and able a coadjutor. 🔊
11. His entrance was the signal for a demonstration of joy from the guards who already looked on him as their future leader. 🔊
12. Trimmer's joy was only less in our friends than in her family, which was for long a puzzle to me. 🔊
13. I found more of myself in them, more sympathy in their joy or sorrow, myself more of an equal with those around me. 🔊
14. Youth and a pair of winged feet came to her rescue, and she forgot her strangeness in sheer joy of motion. 🔊
15. A stench and an abomination to government officials, she had been the joy of all sailormen, and the pride of the shipwrights who built her. 🔊
16. She saw the world again as she had seen it in her first youth, suffused with joy that was like the vivid freshness of dawn. 🔊

17. Many were subdued with awe and joy at their deliverance; others broke the tense strain of the last hours in suffocating sobs. 🔊
18. To them it seemed a veritable resurrection after our months of living burial; yet the joy of reunion was sometimes tinged with sorrow. 🔊
19. The little children cry out for joy if they chance to find an occasional scarlet or mottled maize knob among so many yellow ones. 🔊
20. It was fun, a joke, a problem, a bit of play on which life was lightly hazarded for the joy of the playing. 🔊
21. She had been very ill with thinking he was dead, and Barker says she nearly died of the joy of seeing him again. 🔊

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