How to Use ecstasy in a Sentence
ecstasy
noun
- His performance sent the audience into ecstasies.
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But the ecstasy of the base is the agony of the mainstream.
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Alexander Nazaryan,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2018
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The quick change from ecstasy to agony left the Knights with a 3-2 record on the season.
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Brian Murphy,
orlandosentinel.com,
28 Nov. 2019
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Just in time for the ecstasy—and the skin agony—of peak ski season.
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Celia Ellenberg,
Vogue,
29 Nov. 2018
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By the final minutes, the fans who packed the plaza in a sea of gold and blue were in ecstasy.
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Dustin Gardiner,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Apr. 2023
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These two sequences are the ecstasy and the agony of Batfleck.
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Darren Franich,
EW.com,
4 Mar. 2022
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The agony of the cross has been replaced by the ecstasy of the Resurrection.
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Morin Bishop,
Woman's Day,
22 Mar. 2019
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Yes, those props are meant to look like ecstasy tablets.
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Carly Mallenbaum,
USA TODAY,
7 Apr. 2020
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For Miyamoto, the film had to mirror the agony and ecstasy of playing a video game.
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Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2023
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Both teams were in tears at the end, some from ecstasy, some from despair.
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Chris Scott,
CNN,
15 Apr. 2018
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On the other side of the room, a therapy dog swung its tail in ecstasy.
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Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
19 Apr. 2021
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Jansen thinks often about the agony and ecstasy of his Olympic career — and of that salute to his sister.
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Erik Brady,
USA TODAY,
2 Feb. 2022
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Wolf, the crowd erupted in a cathartic kind of ecstasy.
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Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2022
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Her face is placid and grateful, set in ecstasy or prayer.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2024
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Ah, to be returned again to the ecstasy of Bach in Par after so many long years of waiting!
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Jenny Singer,
Glamour,
24 Aug. 2021
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The super-delicate crunch of the puffy taco results in the same ecstasy — and the same crumbles.
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Joe Yonan,
Washington Post,
17 Sep. 2023
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At first, drugs were just a fun thing to do on weekends — ecstasy and cocaine with her friends.
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April Dembosky,
chicagotribune.com,
12 July 2019
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In the space of just five minutes the Italian population went from the precipice of ecstasy, to the depths of melancholy.
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SI.com,
1 Apr. 2018
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Whibley claims that while at a rave, Nori asked Whibley, who was 18 at the time, to come to a restroom stall to do ecstasy with him.
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Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2024
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But these are the stories of my fear, my neuroses, my ecstasy and my journey.
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Niko Stratis,
SPIN,
9 Mar. 2022
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The ecstasy of the front row…a spiritual residue that remains on the surface of my skin for at least an hour.
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Kate Berlant,
ELLE,
15 Feb. 2023
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Customers line up hours before the shop opens and slurp their noodles and broth in silent ecstasy.
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Chronicle Staff Report,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 Apr. 2018
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But the signs offer the promise of ecstasy from within.
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Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2022
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The victory, Italy’s first in the World Cup since 1938, brought ecstasy to millions of Italian fans glued to their screens at home.
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Washington Post,
10 Dec. 2020
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Wounds of a different sort, the ecstasy of having once felt known.
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Hua Hsu,
The New Yorker,
3 Dec. 2019
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Lopez was stopped for speeding and during the stop, Lopez was found to be in possession of ecstasy.
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Yadira Sanchez Olson,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2023
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Only yesterday the four of us took ecstasy in a stranger’s bed.
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Zach Linge,
The Atlantic,
31 July 2022
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And at that precise moment, the pure joy in his eyes embodied the whole world’s ecstasy.
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Ashley Hoffman,
Time,
19 June 2018
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The ecstasy pills were shaped like grenades and Transformers.
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John Benson,
cleveland,
4 Aug. 2021
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The whole track flutters with ecstasy, especially the racing, clubby drum track, racing like a heartbeat.
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Alex Suskind,
Vulture,
4 Dec. 2024
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