rapture
Example Sentences
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“The idea of the rapture,” Ehrman writes, “has not been taken from the Bible; it has been read into the Bible.”
From Washington Post
“The rapture is an illusion; the rupture caused by Putin is a deadly reality.”
From Seattle Times
If your politics run to the let’s-demolish-government variety, perhaps this is the moment you’ve longed for, for the born-again a moment of double rapture.
From New York Times
Nine minutes later, the travelling City fans were in raptures again as Ellen White turned in the second from close range.
From BBC
In it, she would disappear into the shivery rapture of young love; watching her, you became young again yourself, marveling in the beauty of her storytelling.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
