How to use "joyous" in a sentence

It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

Good, healthy lovemaking with a man who cared for her would have helped her recover much faster than she had done, for sex was the antithesis of death, a joyous celebration of life, a denial of the tomb's existence.

He sensed that he was witnessing a joyous display, a warm greeting, the excited welcome of a child-ghost