ECSTATIC in a Sentence

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Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECSTATIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ecstatic
 a.  pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Nothing did he care for fresh air, and would bestow not a passing glance upon all those beauties of the countryside which moved visitors to such ecstatic admiration.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  And she smiled her ecstatic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
3  It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Young Rostov's ecstatic voice could be heard above the three hundred others.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
5  Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
6  Prince Andrew, with a beaming, ecstatic expression of renewed life on his face, paused in front of Pierre and, not noticing his sad look, smiled at him with the egotism of joy.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXII
7  He remembered everything, and ecstatic pity and love for that man overflowed his happy heart.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
8  Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  I mentioned to Mr. Pumblechook that I wished to have my new clothes sent to his house, and he was ecstatic on my so distinguishing him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
11  I exclaimed, in a state of high ecstatic fervour, that not a moment's consideration could be necessary.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS
12  He was roused by the pressure of ecstatic fingers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  Uncle Miles's most ecstatic trick was to make figures not on paper but right on a new pine board, with the broadest softest pencil in the world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  She had no ecstatic indulgence in the sense of guilt which is, to the women of Main Street, the surest escape from blank tediousness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and ecstatic.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
Example Sentence:
1  She remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.