a mood of joyous anticipation
a joyous crowd eagerly awaiting the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve
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Dratch also continued to giggle through lines for the rest of the sketch, and her occasional pauses to get her bearings were met with joyous applause from the SNL audience.—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025 At night, as the temperature cools, Dahlia’s warms up into a joyous watering hole for locals and visitors alike, with the quieter overflow lounging in the secondary Moss Bar next door, which takes on a more masculine energy with its green walls and taxidermy decor.—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025 But nothing like this joyous singalong, as 30 years of hurt really did seem to be at an end.—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 The final full Black Sabbath concert in 2017 wasn’t a joyous occasion to Ozzy because Bill Ward wasn’t there.—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for joyous
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