ECSTASY in a Sentence

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The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECSTASY
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ecstasy
 n.  intense joy or delight; any overpowering emotion
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed both eyes proudly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
3  One overflows with serenity, with gayety, with ecstasy; one is a radiance amid the night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
4  The Thenardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight of Cosette in her ecstasy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL
5  Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
6  At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
7  During her entire stay there, he had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and precipitates the whole soul on a single point.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
8  This added a touch of genuine wrath to Marius' ecstasy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
9  The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
10  In these few lines she felt a passionate, ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and an immense despair, a suffering heart, an ecstasy fully expanded.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
11  A crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with melancholy, seemed to ask nothing better than to weep.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
12  Despair, also, has its ecstasy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE
13  Jean Valjean could not refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the majestic silence of the eternal heavens.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
14  Gillenormand first passed through all manner of anguish, and then through every form of ecstasy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
15  The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Example Sentence:
1  My father was in ecstasy when I won my scholarship.
2  She was in a trancelike state of religious ecstasy.
3  A researcher a year ago published startling research showing that the drug commonly known as ecstasy can cause Parkinson's-like brain damage.