Thesaurus / ecstasy

ecstasy

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Now he was in a state bordering on ecstasy, and all that he had drunk seemed to fly to his head with redoubled effect.

The ecstasy he felt seemed suddenly to turn itself inward and demand of him new destinations.

In their eyes there was the light of ecstasy, the spiritual gratitude of children for the joy that had come after pain.

He was lost in ecstasy before the masterpieces of Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.

They had fallen on their knees when Seraphitus had turned to the dawn, and they were inspired by his ecstasy.

Seizing the line in his strong teeth he settled back on his haunches and pulled and growled in an ecstasy of glee.

It was thus the morning broke for me, with all the ecstasy of danger passed, and all the crowding hopes of a happy future.

Parental and filial feelings sufficed for nothing between them beyond the ecstasy of a caress.

JOHN CALDIGATEANTHONY TROLLOPE

From this horrible draught, swallowed in the ecstasy of triumph, Kau-ulu-fonua earned his surname of Fekai (the Cannibal).

SAVAGE ISLANDBASIL C. THOMSON

I could not find words to express my feelings on the subject, and exclaimed in ecstasy, "I have slept in a bed!"

WORD OF THE DAY