How to Use exaltation in a Sentence

exaltation

noun
  • That’s what set the stage for the exaltation of her anger.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • In both cases, the shiver of exaltation stayed with me for a long while.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Plains and peaks, deserts and forests, despair and exaltation.
    — Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Is the piece implying a path to exaltation through pain?
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2022
  • When that was updated to 19.31, Lyles tore open his shirt in exaltation.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022
  • There are levels within the Celestial, but the best of the best is a condition known as exaltation, where and when all the good, godly stuff can happen.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 July 2022
  • This fun-loving Payton jumps in photos with players in the locker room after a win to join in the players' exaltation.
    — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Yet Buckley turns the moment into a kind of exaltation.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2022
  • Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
    — Washington Post, 21 June 2017
  • Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 16 June 2017
  • Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
    — Brady McCombs, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
  • Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 16 June 2017
  • Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 16 June 2017
  • Members of the sect believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 16 June 2017
  • The dance floor was a space for celebration, for exaltation, for escape.
    — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2021
  • An unkindness of ravens, a parliament of owls, an exaltation of larks!
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The danger is that this mystical exaltation of liberty may blind us to the virtues of other kinds of flourishing.
    — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Their eyes have beheld, as from the wings of a huge stage, that glorious metamorphosis of a dormant people aroused at last to exaltation.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Vasquez, the portly man whose cries of exaltation at a double rainbow turned him into a viral star, died at 57 on Saturday.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 11 May 2020
  • For Miller, the exaltation of Biden’s victory was tempered by a sobering fact: Millions of people still voted for Trump.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • This exaltation of the Squad somehow felt only steps away from media’s other favorite place for women: the Catfight.
    — Dana Schwartz, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The only hint of the aesthetic exaltation that lies within is the set of soaring front doors (his trademark), bookended by regal lanterns bought in Copenhagen, and the yard’s 160-year-old olive trees.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The exaltation of the relationship between G od and nature is further stressed by the stunning painting on the opposite page.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
  • Her exaltation of the needs of the nation and decision to embrace fame over life itself may not be entirely convincing.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • As fans raised their arms in exaltation, the Hollywood actors' crumpled under the emotion.
    — Jennifer McClellan, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The concepts lend themselves to a mystical exaltation of the state (and of leaders who speak on its behalf) as constituting the General Will.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • While Complete Cubes may seem like an exaltation of light, Bell considers it, like his oeuvre, to be a celebration of his medium.
    — Marielle Wakim, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 June 2018
  • And Francesco, in his exaltation of Anna, rejects the love of a woman who doesn’t care about his ignominious origins: Elisa’s eventual guardian, Rosaria.
    — Jess Bergman, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • By that time, Taylor had experienced and endured, in a few whirlwind years, a lifetime of joy and heartbreak, exaltation and calamity.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
  • Its exaltation of trees reminds me of Tolkien’s Tree of Gondor and the human capacity to appreciate the simple beauty of living things.
    — Mitchell Newberry, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025

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