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
The crowd has been compared to an electric spark, a dance partner, an intoxicant and a character in and of itself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 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
It’s at once intimate and epic, giddy and gloomy, a radical emotional intoxicant.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
It made her gay, as an intoxicant may make one gay.
From Fidelity A Novel by Susan Glaspell
Vocabulary lists containing intoxicant
