From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtriumphanttri‧um‧phant /traɪˈʌmfənt/ ●○○ adjective 1 PROUDHAPPYshowing pleasure and pride because of a victory or success I feel exhausted, but also triumphant.triumphant look/smile/expression etc a triumphant grin2 WINhaving gained a victory or success the triumphant army The Nationalists emerged triumphant from the political crisis. —triumphantly adverb ‘I’ve got a job, ’ she announced triumphantly.
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triumphant• The camera shutter winked and the photographer looked up from it, up and away, across the harbor; triumphant.• In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign.• She wanted to be alone; to escape with her triumphant discovery.• As John Gardner has said, talent is one thing, while its triumphant expression is another.• Only when we are fully deployed are we capable of that triumphant expression.• Winning a ring would be the triumphant moment of his career.• Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished.• the triumphant women's gymnastics teamtriumphant look/smile/expression etc• Only when we are fully deployed are we capable of that triumphant expression.• This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile.• He gave her a knowing, triumphant look and softly closed the door behind him.• But there was a new, triumphant look in the small red eyes.• As John Gardner has said, talent is one thing, while its triumphant expression is another.• A triumphant smile lit his perspiring face as he strode along the corridor to the kitchen.• Allowing herself a small triumphant smile, she started the same process on the right boot.emerged triumphant• After several weeks of fevered indigestion and almost terminal flatulence Grom emerged triumphant.• Embassies tell us the system has emerged triumphant.• Instead, rockeries and crazy paving abound and, after much tender loving care, a lawn has emerged triumphant.• It was, however, the Right which emerged triumphant from the political crisis brought by defeat. 