intoxicant

Example Sentences

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But that just means you have to treat this relationship as an intoxicant vs. nourishment.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2021

Buffalo Bill advertised Cody in a Wild West show program, promising air that was “so pure, so sweet and so bracing” that it would act as an intoxicant to city-clogged lungs.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2020

Music is an intoxicant and a revelation, an accompaniment to mourning and to celebration; it bears the marks of both Apollo and Dionysus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2018

In “Sorry to Bother You, white voice is a dangerous intoxicant; in “BlackKkKlansman,” it is a stereotype the black man can deploy against its creators.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

All the glamour of our yesterdays came over him like an intoxicant, and he quivered with the wonderful beauty of life that was weaving him into the large magic of the years.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)