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
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
It’s a show about conversation and ideas, and the stiffest intoxicant is English Breakfast tea.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2015
One species distils an intoxicant of its own; but owing to its small orifice, it excludes the majority of insects, and admits but a select few.
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
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