Sample Sentences for
rapture
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(editor-reviewed)

rapture as in:  listened with rapture

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She was in rapture as the chorus sang Bach's Hallelujah Chorus.
rapture = a feeling of ecstasy (extreme happiness)
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    She listened to her music in a state of rapture.  (source)
    rapture = ecstasy
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    It would be nice to think McCandless experienced a similar rapture.  (source)
    rapture = extreme happiness
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    They met in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea, and so whenever anything happened there, even something terrible, it was like all of a sudden they were not large sedentary creatures, but the young and idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and their rapture was such that they didn't even glance over at me as...  (source)
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    The corporal began lording over his dream life, coming at him and pounding him, his features alight in vicious rapture.  (source)
    rapture = a state of being carried away by intense desired emotion
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    I keep hoping to discover that he's dying to see me, and I'm in raptures when I notice his bashful attempts.  (source)
    raptures = feelings of ecstasy (extreme happiness)
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    And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished, yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea.†  (source)
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    Still rapturing, I'd guess.†  (source)
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    But if she were to say yes, what rapture!  (source)
    rapture = extreme happiness
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    Dad continued with his raptures, oblivious to the effect he was having on his listeners.  (source)
    raptures = expressions of excitement and joy
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    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.†  (source)
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    I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books.  (source)
    rapture = extreme happiness
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    We were just in raptures over your swan.†  (source)
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    Henchard's visits here grew so frequent and so regular that it soon became whispered, and then openly discussed in Casterbridge that the masterful, coercive Mayor of the town was raptured and enervated by the genteel widow Mrs. Newson.†  (source)
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rapture as in:  awaiting the Rapture

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The film depicted the Rapture beginning with the sound of Gabriel's horn.  (source)
rapture = belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus when believers are expected to go to Heaven
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    She believes the Rapture is coming soon.
    rapture = belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus
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    Most Christians don't think much about Rapture, but some debate its chronological relationship to tribulation.
    rapture = belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus when believers are expected to go to Heaven
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    The Rapture was coming, we thought. Apocalyptic imagery filled the weekly sermons and ...  (source)
    Rapture = second coming of Jesus
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    It could be her birthday, it could be the morning of the Rapture-Cathy will get up early on Saturday to clean.  (source)
    Rapture = second coming of Jesus
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    The Rapture is approaching.  (source)
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    He had come into the visiting room to see his little buddy, Officer Jesus-Is-My-Homeboy, who was filling in for the regular visitation CO and boring two prisoners who were helpers in the visiting room with predictions about the Rapture.  (source)
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