How to Use triumphant in a Sentence

triumphant

adjective
  • Justin Bieber has made a triumphant return to the stage!
    Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The 993 signaled a triumphant finale for the air-and-oil-cooled version of the car.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Fast forward three years, and the Red Comet has made a triumphant return.
    Ash Parrish, The Verge, 22 June 2023
  • And as the film ends, the final shot is of Helen's triumphant face, watching the boats from the mainland close in on the island.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Many awaited her triumphant return to the field, but that moment has yet to come.
    Emma Obregón Dominguez, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The big game at the end is a triumphant sequence, as stylized as a musical.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This triumphant eight-decade survey caught me off guard.
    Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Lizzo just made a triumphant return to the Grammys stage.
    Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Keaton's Bruce Wayne makes his triumphant return to the screen to help multiple Barrys save the time-stream.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • And some moles are all the more likely to make a triumphant return after being shaved off.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This summer, Simone Biles made her triumphant return to the mat.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As the actress who plays Moore belts out a triumphant melody, Linehan sings the harmony.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The 2012 season ended in triumphant fashion for the Giants and their fans, but heartbreak for Cabrera and the Tigers.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Seems like the perfect time for Purple, Green, and all the rest to make a triumphant return: a game watched by sports fans and Fox News viewers alike.
    WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • After the triumphant finale of man over fruit is filmed late this month, the color epic will be edited and, so to speak, in the can this summer.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But what should have been a triumphant moment felt more like an ordeal for the lone Republican in the trio.
    Kayla Guo, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • More than two decades later, the Civic makes a triumphant return as a regular on our 10Best list.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Viewed from west of the Appalachians, the end of British rule in the Thirteen Colonies was far from a triumphant moment for human freedom.
    Sean T. Byrnes, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Backers of digital billboards had a triumphant week at City Hall, their best in more than a decade.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Rose’s background at Pebble Beach isn’t quite as triumphant.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The legal matter isn’t yet settled, and whether Disney will be triumphant remains to be seen.
    Becket Adams, National Review, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Season 1 was a triumphant comeback after a five-year break due to illness.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Musk was triumphant in that case, but he's got plenty more legal trouble to wriggle out from.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Rolling Stone caught up with Phaedra to discuss her triumphant journey on The Traitors thus far — and how she is just getting started.
    Krystie Lee Yandoli, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Also triumphant, Che has managed to leave the house and join Carrie at WidowCon as promised.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 20 July 2023
  • Barnes’s 1966 New York show might have marked his triumphant emergence into the artistic mainstream.
    Adam Bradley, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Some of these sports would be in the Olympic spotlight for the first time, while others would be making a triumphant return, in some cases after a very long wait.
    Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The sound of the ring announcer, reading off the split-decision scores, is echoey and low in the mix, drowned out by a triumphant scene of Rocky embracing Adrian.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Biles is less than a week removed from her triumphant return to gymnastics.
    Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2023
  • And, in a stark contrast to the triumphant start to 2021, Friedman’s end-of-season news conference last week struck a far different note.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2023

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