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
In “Sorry to Bother You, white voice is a dangerous intoxicant; in “BlackKkKlansman,” it is a stereotype the black man can deploy against its creators.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
All the glamour of our yesterdays came over him like an intoxicant, and he quivered with the wonderful beauty of life that was weaving him into the large magic of the years.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Vocabulary lists containing intoxicant
