RAPTURE in a Sentence

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93 example sentences for RAPTURE, such as:

1. I was in a state of perfect rapture.
2. Never before had she known such rapture.
3. In the open air their rapture broke into speech.
4. The last minute goal sent the fans into raptures.
5. The mother gazed with rapture at her new born baby.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAPTURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rapture
 n.  seizing by violence; hurrying along; rapidity with violence; state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1  Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
3  The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  The airedale--undoubtedly there was an airedale concerned in it somewhere though its feet were startlingly white--changed hands and settled down into Mrs. Wilson's lap, where she fondled the weather-proof coat with rapture.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  In the open air their rapture broke into speech.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
6  Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
7  I was in a state of perfect rapture.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
8  And Mrs. Gummidge took his hand, and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection, in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude, that he well deserved.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
9  He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
10  "Oh, yes, yes; make haste, please," answered Levin, with difficulty restraining the smile of rapture which would overspread his face.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
11  But she was still the same, and the sight of her affected him the same way, physically reviving him, stirring him, and filling his soul with rapture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
12  "You were driving to Ergushovo," said Levin, feeling as if he would sob with the rapture that was flooding his heart.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
13  She blushed with emotion when he came into the room, she could not repress a smile of rapture when he said anything amiable to her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 23
14  Countess Lidia Ivanovna looked at him ecstatically, and tears of rapture at the greatness of his soul came into her eyes.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
15  Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
2  He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.
3  Never before had she known such rapture.
4  The mother gazed with rapture at her new born baby.
5  She made her exit from the stage to rapturous applause.
6  The last minute goal sent the fans into raptures.
7  The critics went into raptures about her performance.