rapture
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It was a celestial explosion for a tournament, sending the sport into rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
In Disney, Dudamel’s “Resurrection” had the quality of rapture in surround sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
Wolf Alice delivered a crowd-pleasing cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams on The Other Stage, but it was their ode to friendship, Bros, that sent the audience into rapture.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
Let’s replace Broadway with a bunch of rinks—and ask Stanley Cup hockey teams to send us all into the riveted rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2025
Oh, the relief and the rapture that filled her heart.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Fast forward to the 99th minute and with Burnley now trailing 4-3, Turf Moor was sent into raptures as Barnes thought he had equalised with the final kick of the game.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Atcho reversed his decision, awarding a spot-kick to Ivory Coast which Kessie duly despatched to Mendy's left, sending the Charles Konan Banny de Yamoussoukro Stadium into raptures.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
Since then he has made national and international headlines, defeated former world champions and sent crowds into raptures.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
“Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again? At present I have not room to do them justice.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
It was me who managed to spill a glass of water over the notes Mourinho waved to a raptured audience at his unveiling news conference.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
Because they’re so light, they defy proper waste management, floating off trash cans and sanitation trucks like they’re being raptured by a garbage god.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The future of the web is at stake The end of those cookies is called the Cookiepocalypse, and it’s apocalyptic because nobody really knows what advertisers will do once those tracking methods are raptured.
From The Verge ● Apr. 16, 2021
Yet even CBS’s team carried themselves as if they just found out all of the babies, puppies and kittens in the world suddenly raptured.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2018
To judge from the pictures, Pickett didn’t seem to be missing so much as he seemed to have been raptured.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
Nor ever again did her genius shine out in rapturing periods till she drew inspiration from the grand environment of the old homestead.
From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
There also the birds warbled, with various voices, notes ravishing and rapturing the heart by the melodies of their musick.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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