rapture

The other night he rolled into the second half of Argentina’s group-stage closer against Jordan and delivered a free kick zapper that sent the Jerrydome into rapture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

It was a celestial explosion for a tournament, sending the sport into rapture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Here beauty is celebrated with voluptuous rapture, setting the mood for “Oh, Yemanja,” a mythic, watery mother’s prayer from Tania León’s opera “Scourge of Hyacinths.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

Wolf Alice delivered a crowd-pleasing cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams on The Other Stage, but it was their ode to friendship, Bros, that sent the audience into rapture.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

I asked him what it was, and he said, with a sort of rapture in his voice and bearing:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Leyland's first try came as he scooped the ball over the line but his second came courtesy of an audacious run-in from halfway, which sent the home fans into raptures.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

After Liverpool were pegged back, the captain rose highest to meet an 89th-minute corner, score the winner and send both the Reds fans and manager Arne Slot into raptures.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025

For an opera steeped in raptures and reveries, in which fantasies of romantic bliss compete with premonitions of a pessimistic outcome, Sierra and Bernheim were a dream at the revival’s second performance on Sunday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

The visiting fans who were sent into glorious raptures at Easter Road already adored their Hearts hero before he etched his name further into capital folklore.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

She wrote also with great pleasure of her brother’s being an inmate of Mr. Darcy’s house, and mentioned with raptures some plans of the latter with regard to new furniture.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

It was me who managed to spill a glass of water over the notes Mourinho waved to a raptured audience at his unveiling news conference.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

Because they’re so light, they defy proper waste management, floating off trash cans and sanitation trucks like they’re being raptured by a garbage god.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

The future of the web is at stake The end of those cookies is called the Cookiepocalypse, and it’s apocalyptic because nobody really knows what advertisers will do once those tracking methods are raptured.

From The Verge ● Apr. 16, 2021

Yet even CBS’s team carried themselves as if they just found out all of the babies, puppies and kittens in the world suddenly raptured.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2018

Once, when I raptured in a violet glow given off by the Queen of the World, my father asked me why, and I thought he was crazy not to see.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

There also the birds warbled, with various voices, notes ravishing and rapturing the heart by the melodies of their musick.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Nor ever again did her genius shine out in rapturing periods till she drew inspiration from the grand environment of the old homestead.

From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap