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Example sentences for "great joy"

  • Crowned with success, they then, O king, left that spot in great joy.

  • Hearing these words of the Grandsire, foremost ones among the deities felt great joy.

  • Good tidings of great joy shall be to ALL people.

  • The God of our salvation lives "Good tidings of great joy shall be to ALL people.

  • A delightfully neat garden with European flowers was indeed a great joy to one's eyes, now unaccustomed to so gay and tidy a sight.

  • Those tins of milk were a great joy to Benedicto, Filippe and myself.

  • A few minutes later, as I peeped from behind my tree, I had a moment of great joy.

  • At these words the people dispersed in great joy, and Joseph and Nicodemus walked on together in silence, till Joseph, feeling that they were safely out of hearing, asked if Jesus spoke of his intention to take Jerusalem by assault.

  • It was a great joy to draw the pure air into his lungs, to drink a deep draught, and to look round for a wild cat.

  • It is a great joy to return to thought after a long absence from it, and Jesus was not afraid, though once his conscience asked him if he were justified in yielding himself unreservedly to reason.

  • With a great joy in my heart I hastened onward to my father's house.

  • It was a great joy to me that I could do so, little sister," he said gently.

  • I said, glancing down at my lovely robe, which, to my great joy, I found was similar to those of the dwellers in that happy place.

  • God stands by the side of every man who does his duty, and your mother, remember, is about to experience a great joy.

  • A letter with a foreign postmark and an Egyptian stamp was handed to me on Monday morning, and I have been excited and troubled ever since, though it brought me a great joy.

  • The wedding lasted from one Monday to the other Tuesday, and the whole land was in great joy, and if the strings of the fiddle hadn't broken they would have been dancing yet!

  • In great joy he set the plough straight and went home.

  • Then they sat down to dinner, and ate and drank in great joy.

  • It gives me great joy, for I see that you are seekers after truth.

  • To you who seek the truth, the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh will come as a great joy!

  • The Divine love of God is a power among you, and with souls athirst, ye receive the glad tidings of great joy.

  • This caused me great joy, for that assemblage is a rose-garden of mysteries and very sweet fragrances of being inhaled from it.

  • This letter, which was signed by the majority of the friends, brought me great, great joy.

  • Having read all this news, and received commands of the Duke with great content, he giving me the words which to my great joy he hath several times said to me, that his greatest reliance is upon me.

  • Thus ends this year, to my great joy, in this manner.

  • All the afternoon to my accounts; and there find myself, to my great joy, a great deal worth above 4000l.

  • The son flies on wings of love, enters the prison and exclaims--I bring you good tidings of great joy.

  • But when an angel announced the dawn of a better covenant; he said "fear not, for behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy.

  • And Amis received the same with great joy.

  • And how they bestirred them with great joy, and went their ways, and so far that they came unto a place where they were without company.

  • So went they in great joy and in great pleasance, and praised God and his mother and the hallows, both carl and quean, and gave thanks for the goods which they had done them.

  • He received her gladly, and in great joy and in great honour of all his friends; and he wedded her according to the Saracen law; and he led her into his land in great joy and in great honour.

  • When she spoke there was wonder and a great joy in her voice.

  • It was a great joy to observe with what marvelous craftsmanship he had built up the wonderful structures.

  • He comes to music with a new talent, a new gift and finds first of all a great joy in his work.

  • The parent knows how much music brings into the life of the child and he never looks upon the art as an accomplishment for exhibition purposes, but rather as a source of great joy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great joy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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