sensation

Example Sentences

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This unstable, indeterminate flickering sensation is what Mr. Lerner wants to evoke as he maneuvers his stories between the polarities of the real and the imaginary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

I never got to meet them, and I wish I had, because I wrote another song which had a little pop at a teenage sensation at the time, and I didn’t mean anything by it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Aimée Anne Duffy grew up between Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire before becoming an overnight sensation with her debut, which became the UK's best selling album of 2008.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

“It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong