- present participle of intoxicate.
intoxicating
Example Sentences
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“I think that belief was intoxicating to the players.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
In a Yelets bakery the smell of freshly baked raisin bread, scones and cream pastries is intoxicating.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
Besson innovates with a subplot about Dracul’s foray into the world of perfume as he develops an intoxicating fragrance in Florence using French lavender, testing the potion on the pre-Revolution socialites in towering white-powdered wigs.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 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
Inka gold and silver thus represented to the Spaniards the intoxicating prospect of social better ment. late the situation to his advantage.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing intoxicating
The Haunting of Hill House
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