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

I wonder if the scent of orange blossom, warmed by the breath of the sea, is an intoxicant, if it soaks in at the pores and quickens the veins to madness?

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis