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

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

It’s a show about conversation and ideas, and the stiffest intoxicant is English Breakfast tea.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2015

Such temptations, along with the dangerous intoxicant that is music, had, he felt, caused the fall of Greece and Rome.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2015

I wonder if the scent of orange blossom, warmed by the breath of the sea, is an intoxicant, if it soaks in at the pores and quickens the veins to madness?

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis