RAPT in a Sentence

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11 example sentences for RAPT, such as:

1. Mrs. Trenor fixed a rapt eye upon her.
2. He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described.
3. He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation.
4. Of this scene, so chillingly in accordance with the past, Duncan stood for many minutes a rapt observer.
5. Caught up in the wonder of the storyteller's tale, the rapt listeners sat motionless, hanging on his every word.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAPT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rapt
 a.  absorbed; deeply moved or delighted
Classic Sentence:
1  The sun was setting now; and the red light in the evening sky touched every face there, and caused it to be distinctly seen in all its rapt suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
2  He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
3  I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
4  Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
5  He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  Mrs. Trenor fixed a rapt eye upon her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  Of this scene, so chillingly in accordance with the past, Duncan stood for many minutes a rapt observer.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
8  The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
9  While these marvels meet Dardanian Aeneas' eyes, while he dizzily hangs rapt in one long gaze, Dido the queen entered the precinct, beautiful exceedingly, a youthful train thronging round her.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
10  He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray and tufted hair; his voice and hands shook as with palsy; but on his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
Example Sentence:
1  Caught up in the wonder of the storyteller's tale, the rapt listeners sat motionless, hanging on his every word.