Synonym: bliss, delight, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, glee, happiness, joy. Similar words: rapturous, capture, rupture, sculpture, rapt, future, mature, nature. Meaning: ['ræptʃə(r)] n. 1. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion 2. a state of elated bliss.
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1, Never before had she known such rapture.
2, The children gazed at her in rapture.
3, The boys gazed up at him in rapture.
4, Charles listened with rapture to her singing.
5, The younger folks were in rapture.
6, She was in the seventh heaven of rapture.
7, The prime minister's supporters greeted her speech with rapture.
8, The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention.
9, The pursuit of miracles, the rapture of happy endings.
10, Never had he known such rapture.
11, By contrast, John Prescott was received with rapture.
12, I prefer the throwaway disco rapture offered by Rozalla.
13, I greet those with modified rapture.
14, She prayed ardently, in rapture.
15, Penitents shrieked and the healed cried in rapture.
16, She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood.
17, With rapture and relief he elides with the larger unit,(http://sentencedict.com/rapture.html) the glowing mass.
18, Elizabeth listened with rapture to everyday incidents of family life.
19, He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.
20, He'd had more time to think, to get used to this slightly absurd rapture.
21, By contrast he is equally adept at setting a tone of meditative rapture in the slower movements.
22, The effect is finally to provoke analysis rather than rapture or rationalization.
23, When at last he allowed the wave to break, she broke with it, mind and body shattering, fragmenting in rapture.
24, The constant stream of praise burbling in the background of the class swelled into shouts of rapture.
25, But today, some pentecostal preachers seem so obsessed with the techniques of rapture that they have forgotten the original message.
26, Ralph watched as she took two steps, gazed up with rapture at the tree branches, then took another two steps.
27, Rather than feeling uncomfortable in his clothing, a kind of congenial rapture spread through me.
28, They were not mighty faces, in just repose, or caught there purely, in serene rapture.
29, I will say that, in certain scenes of revelatory rapture, Updike has rarely been better.
30, Verse after verse had sprung from silence to run in fiery lines across the page. Never had he known such rapture.
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