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How to use rapture in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun, verb

Rapture means extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement. Example: “They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.”

Examples of rapture by meaning

nounExtreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

  • They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
  • Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian
  • My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp....

verbTo cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

  • She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138

verbTo take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

  • These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.2007, Leon L. Combs, A Search For Reality, page 46
  • “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief.2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, →ISBN

verbTo state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

  • Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.2003, Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams, page 75
  • They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.2003, Beverly Adam, Irish Magic, page 121

More sentences with rapture

  • Karen gavotted into the middle of the bar to dance, eyes closed in rapture.2023 August 2, HarryBlank, “Act Your Age”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2024. From the entry gavotte
  • Free from hive mentality one can't help but to hedonistically rapture on pleasurable energy.2005, Daniel McClelland, Secret Magickal Text, page 78. From the entry roboticism
  • Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.1998, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love, New York: Hyperion, page 21. From the entry unbiddable
  • I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime.1919, H.P. Lovecraft, The City. From the entry halcyon
  • But oh, what a little miserable pleasure that is in comparison with the rapture I have forfeited!1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry thistledown
  • There is nothing more derided than the raptures of a young affection.1906, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, The Key of the Blue Closet, page 201. From the entry derided
  • Anna felt closer to Mandelstam than to any other poet, considering him as some miracle of poetic primaevality worthy of rapture.1988, Jessie Davies, Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry primaevality
  • In typical Darbyite fashion, Franson preached that a pretribulationist secret rapture would precede the appearance of the personal Antichrist.1987, Fides Et Historia. From the entry Darbyite
  • Oh, lookee!" she squealed in rapture to the other girls.1919, Hildegard G. Frey, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit. From the entry lookee
  • I had never known the rapture of being in love.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry thistledown
  • Nature then with rapture trembles, Music flows divine along To besoothe our restless feeling By the magic thrill of song.1903, Thomas Ostenson Stine, Echoes from Dreamland. From the entry besoothe
  • She waked often in the solitude of the night, imaging the bride and bridegroom on the track of rapture, following the unwaning star.1920, May Edginton, Married Life. From the entry unwaning
  • Duchess Meg soon forgot this unworthy wedding-gift, such was her rapture in the other, the so august, appurtenances of her new life.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry appurtenance
  • “Some don’t really know if this is when the rapture is going to happen, but they think it’s still an important wake-up call to pay attention to.2025 September 23, Alaina Demopoulos, quoting Sara Reinis, “‘It’s prime time for rapture talk’: TikTok gets its first ‘world is ending’…. From the entry hedge one's bets
  • Had Romeo been told by Julet that she would appear at her window at noon, the young Veronan's rapture at the appointed hour could not have matched the Count's.2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN. From the entry Veronan
  • That will be how we lose what we have gained, The incremental rapture at the core, Spleened of the belly's thick placental wrath, And the seed's roar.1996, William Everson, Clif Ross, William Everson: The Light the Shadow Casts, page 105. From the entry spleen
  • And if we believe the chronicles, Rumi himself had experienced ecstatical raptures, was able to transgress time and space, or to be present in several places at once.1993, Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, page 311. From the entry ecstatical
  • The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).1979: Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C.…. From the entry requestress
  • Kissing the tendril fingers - at first because Mina, its mother, did not - but later with a rapture begot by its breath on her breast.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry tendril
  • A sensation of total serenity, like I'm some ultravast ocean rippling with waves of pure ecstasy and permeated with waves of pure ecstasy and permeated with currents of sheer rapture.2004, Sphyrex Shobol, Nexus Infinitas: The Seekers: Between Heaven and Hell, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry ultravast

Meaning of rapture

  1. noun Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  2. noun The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  3. noun Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

Full definition of rapture

Questions about rapture in a sentence

How do you use rapture in a sentence?
Rapture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.”
What is a short sentence with rapture?
““Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief.”
What does rapture mean?
Rapture means extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapture (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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