Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: joys
IPA transcription: [dʒ'ɔɪz]
Usage examples
  • The joys of self-sacrifice are ineffable.
  • His greatest joys have come to him in this way.
  • Sewing-machines, boats, guns, tents, and even diamond engagement rings, yield their joys under the renting contract.
  • Six times you would have deprived me of joys that should have been mine, and each was greater than that which went before.
  • Mr Lammle bestows a by no means loving look upon the partner of his joys and sorrows, and he mutters something; but checks himself.
  • How sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams--the meditation of old times resumed --their loves, joys, persons, voyages.
  • In France one guest speaks to any or all of the others; all one's friends extend congratulations if a baby is coming; one shares all his joys with friends.
  • It is sad to reflect that he who has painted so beautifully for others the joys and sorrows of perfect love and home, was himself destined to know neither.
  • Drinking tempts some men not only by taste, but by the appeal to sociability; to other coarser natures the joys of Bacchus offer the one hope of exhilaration.
  • The brink was a delightful place, full of all the sweet ecstasies and thrilling joys of a seventh heaven, but over the brink--well! there should be no "over," for who was she?