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

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

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

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2015

Upon the Arabs it acted like an intoxicant.

From With the Turks in Palestine by Aaronsohn, Alexander