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
When I was in high school during the early 2010s, the rapture was still a punchline.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025
Wolf Alice delivered a crowd-pleasing cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams on The Other Stage, but it was their ode to friendship, Bros, that sent the audience into rapture.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
Everyone stands up, looking to the sky like a starry-eyed mob waiting for the rapture.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Kupcho repeated her heroics with another monster, winning the match and sending the whole US team into raptures around the green.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
In keeping with a career full of memorable moments, Stokes took a wicket with the first he bowled after the announcement, sending Trent Bridge into raptures.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Since then he has made national and international headlines, defeated former world champions and sent crowds into raptures.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
In the midst of Kepler’s mathematical raptures, and despite his sequestered life, the imperfections of the outside world must also have molded his character.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
When I was 10 I thought I was going to get raptured into heaven.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
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
Once, when I raptured in a violet glow given off by the Queen of the World, my father asked me why, and I thought he was crazy not to see.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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