Joy in a sentence

Definition of Joy

• His joy in the torment of the patient was natural, for the world he lived in was a world of pain.
• It was a joy to him, if we had been out late in the evening, to run across us as we returned.
• He endured the cross, despising the shame, in view of the unbounded joy that was set before him.
• When he had finished, her eyes, though bedewed with tears, were shining with joy and pride.
• The laborers were permitted to follow me, and we resumed with joy our road towards Tusculum.
• Success and failure, despair and hope, joy and sorrow, lie within and not without us.
• Philippa was at times unusually silent, but Helen had expanded in the joy of her great happiness.
• Everything around looked and breathed of Bianca; hope and joy flushed in my bosom at every step.
• Your presence, company, and conversation, Come where you will, bring joy and pleasure with them.
• Wolfert's heart leaped with joy at having met with so learned and able a coadjutor.
• His entrance was the signal for a demonstration of joy from the guards who already looked on him as their future leader.
• Trimmer's joy was only less in our friends than in her family, which was for long a puzzle to me.
• I found more of myself in them, more sympathy in their joy or sorrow, myself more of an equal with those around me.
• Youth and a pair of winged feet came to her rescue, and she forgot her strangeness in sheer joy of motion.
• 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.
• 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.
• Many were subdued with awe and joy at their deliverance; others broke the tense strain of the last hours in suffocating sobs.
• To them it seemed a veritable resurrection after our months of living burial; yet the joy of reunion was sometimes tinged with sorrow.
• The little children cry out for joy if they chance to find an occasional scarlet or mottled maize knob among so many yellow ones.
• She had been very ill with thinking he was dead, and Barker says she nearly died of the joy of seeing him again.
• It was a wild, free life, and she threw herself into it recklessly, glorying in the unholy joy of beating them at their own game.
• The joyful, loving pair, happy beyond all expression, were then left alone with their joy and happiness.
• It was fun, a joke, a problem, a bit of play on which life was lightly hazarded for the joy of the playing.
• Our reception made us imagine for an hour that our arrival perceptibly heightened the general joy of the Washington anniversary.
• Yet thither many an angel in love delights to come, And watch in joy and gladness the heirs of his bright home.
• I have never known anything like the joy she got from her family, though I never could quite make out why.

• I feel all the joy and the strength of being with you.
• Relief and joy beyond description filled him.
• Too much the influence of joy or sorrow?
• Think of me only as one who takes joy in loving you.
• Will the voice of joy ever recal them from their exile?
• He felt his heart beat quicker, a sudden joy possessed him.
• Much to her surprise and joy the letter was from Mark.
• My greatest joy is in dreaming of the day when we shall meet again.
• In the autumn of his life he found joy his youth had never known.
• The others lost their grip early, and their joy along with it.
• My own joy was unbounded, and that of my brothers and sisters was hardly less.
• November was a month of kaleidoscopic sorrow and joy for the British.
• His simple pleasure touched Corinna like the artless joy of a child.
• Ah, well, we can't always be young and full of the pure joy of living.