- present participle of intoxicate.
intoxicating
Example Sentences
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Intoxicating nostalgia and the sorrow of unvarnished reality travel hand in hand.
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2011
Intoxicating drinks were unknown to the sedentary inhabitants of New Mexico previous to the advent of Europeans.
From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Intoxicating, the odours of the earth, refreshed and satisfied.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
Intoxicating, yet, as she envisaged it, disquieting likewise.
From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas
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