JOY in a Sentence
Learn JOY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
285 example sentences for JOY, such as:
1. I leaped into the air with joy.
2. A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
3. To wish you joy at this holy season.
4. As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold.
5. He was on the point of going mad with joy.
2. A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
3. To wish you joy at this holy season.
4. As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold.
5. He was on the point of going mad with joy.
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Meanings and Examples of JOY
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joy
n. the emotion of great happiness
v. make glad or happy
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 They did not know whether they were cries of pain or joy; but they started up precipitately with that inquietude and alarm which every little thing inspires in an unknown country.
2 This charming, this unhoped-for letter transported Candide with an inexpressible joy, and the illness of his dear Cunegonde overwhelmed him with grief.
3 He was on the point of going mad with joy.
4 The expression of his face, up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
5 There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
6 As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold.
7 We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty.
8 As she passed the Thenardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful in the monster swing, had dazzled her in a manner, and she had halted in front of that vision of joy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
9 There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it.
10 Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her heart.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
11 Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray of warmth and joy.
12 At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not go whither he was now proceeding.
13 He examined this joy with a sort of wrath, and found it absurd.
14 Some months before this, at the moment when Fantine had just lost her last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of herself; now she was the spectre of herself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
15 Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face.
Example Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1 May your birthday bring lots of joy in the year you have begun.
2 The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
3 Congratulations to you both and may the years ahead bring you continued joy and contentment.
4 I leaped into the air with joy.
5 I am filled with such joy at the sight of you two beginning together.
6 When something sensational happens to us, sharing the happiness of the occasion with friends intensifies our joy.
7 May the joy and happiness around you today and always.
8 Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
9 I pass through the summer which the winter and the equator are filled with joy rush toward you to like.
10 The foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
11 When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is gazing upon you and sunshine, that is the future I desire.
12 As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind,so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
13 We must face tomorrow, whatever it may hold, with determination, joy, and bravery.
14 A cheerful wife is the joy of life.
15 To wish you joy at this holy season.