intoxicating
Example Sentences
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Rock ’n’ roll, with its roots in black American music, offered something urgent and liberating: a sense of community and the intoxicating possibility that nothing was inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
In a Yelets bakery the smell of freshly baked raisin bread, scones and cream pastries is intoxicating.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
This Christian-bro gym culture offers many young men an intoxicating sense of purpose, one in which the pursuit of conventional masculinity is given a kind of divine backing.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026
The movie reveals itself to you, layer by layer, incident by incident, in a way that becomes downright intoxicating.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2025
Lyra found her power over him almost intoxicating, and if Pantalaimon hadn’t nipped her hand sharply to remind her of the danger they were all in, she might have lost all her sense of proportion.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing intoxicating
The Haunting of Hill House
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