rapture
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The other night he rolled into the second half of Argentina’s group-stage closer against Jordan and delivered a free kick zapper that sent the Jerrydome into rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
It was a celestial explosion for a tournament, sending the sport into rapture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
As I listened to the details of what else she was doing to prepare for the rapture, I noticed that she was sporting a shirt with Charlie Kirk’s name on it.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
His ideas were "received with rapture" by the prime minister's secretary PN Dhar.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2025
“A ravishingly lovely lady, who exclaimed, with a cry of rapture, ‘At last!
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
This time the celebration wasn't as muted as he raised his arm aloft, club still in hand, as the crowd went into raptures.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Leyland's first try came as he scooped the ball over the line but his second came courtesy of an audacious run-in from halfway, which sent the home fans into raptures.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
After Liverpool were pegged back, the captain rose highest to meet an 89th-minute corner, score the winner and send both the Reds fans and manager Arne Slot into raptures.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
Little moments had the home fans in raptures.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
Don’t pretend to be in raptures about mine.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
It was me who managed to spill a glass of water over the notes Mourinho waved to a raptured audience at his unveiling news conference.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
Because they’re so light, they defy proper waste management, floating off trash cans and sanitation trucks like they’re being raptured by a garbage god.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The future of the web is at stake The end of those cookies is called the Cookiepocalypse, and it’s apocalyptic because nobody really knows what advertisers will do once those tracking methods are raptured.
From The Verge ● Apr. 16, 2021
Yet even CBS’s team carried themselves as if they just found out all of the babies, puppies and kittens in the world suddenly raptured.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2018
To judge from the pictures, Pickett didn’t seem to be missing so much as he seemed to have been raptured.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
Nor ever again did her genius shine out in rapturing periods till she drew inspiration from the grand environment of the old homestead.
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
There also the birds warbled, with various voices, notes ravishing and rapturing the heart by the melodies of their musick.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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