INTOXICATION in a Sentence

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Instead, the trial court advised the jury that intoxication is not a defense to that crime under any circumstances.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTOXICATION
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intoxication
 n.  excitement beyond the bounds of sobriety; drunkenness; poisoning by a drug or toxic substance
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
2  These four legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
3  The wanton and vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees to trembling.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
4  Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity of realities.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
5  An order of nolle prosequi, founded on his well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, had set him at liberty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
6  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 ...
7  All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in intoxication.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8  Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of the tomb were seizing hold upon him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
9  He was at that period of intoxication in which vulgar drinkers fall on the floor and go to sleep.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
10  There were moments of such positive intoxication, of such happiness, that there was not the faintest trace of irony within me, on my honour.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
11  He was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful intoxication.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
12  In the state of intoxication she was in, everything seemed simple and natural.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX
13  As to the washerwoman pawning the clothes, and coming in a state of penitent intoxication to apologize, I suppose that might have happened several times to anybody.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
14  The intoxication of the news that Kitty was not married had gradually begun to work upon him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 17
15  When she thought that he was there at hand, waiting for her, she grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Instead, the trial court advised the jury that intoxication is not a defense to that crime under any circumstances.
2  At the peak of the climber, not intoxicated in a step along the way.
3  On summer evenings the flowers gave forth an almost intoxicating scent.
4  Marijuana's emergence as the drug of choice of the '60s had little to do with medicinal and industrial applications and everything to do with its profound power to intoxicate an entire generation.