How to Use rapture in a Sentence

rapture

noun

• He listened to the wind in the trees, his eyes closed in rapture.
• We listened with rapture as the orchestra played.
• The camera in this moment catches the look of rapture on the face of Sanders’s Richard.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• The first novel begins with the rapture of all true Christians from the earth and the chaos that follows.
  — Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
• That was my first taste of the rapture that is giving away baby things.
  — Elyssa Friedland, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
• But the rapture makes for a good headline, and many large news outlets take the bait and report the claim straight up.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2018
• If the rapture is indeed imminent, expect the raver pop-rock princess to party all the way to the end of the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• But it was built to stand until the Rapture, and maybe a little while beyond.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Hunter wants you on the fence — with rapture on one side and boring old wage labor on the other.
  — Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023
• Months later, the memory of his rapture was still enough to move his wife to tears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• To hear that in a lullaby, to hear it in anger or rapture, is an aha moment.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• The music fades, and for the next five minutes, the camera pans through the crowd as a chorus of dancers, eyes closed in rapture, sing through the highs and lows of the song.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 27 Nov. 2020
• At its best, this big-screen version of the fin de siècle TV series evokes the rapture of the shallows.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 May 2017
• If this is a rapture, the women wonder, why have the men been taken instead of them?
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• Parts of the book evince an excitement for the unknown, a thrill not unlike the rapture of Febos’s past.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
• The rapture never struck, but the faithful's world ended.
  — Alden Woods, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
• The essence of that scene is victory and rapture and feeling good about yourself.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 June 2023
• His London nocturnes put the hardest of hearts in rapture.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 9 July 2022
• This is a show about the rapture of play, family lore, and bouncing tennis balls.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
• Sun on snow or water will be too bright, but the Rydon ($250) is rapture for those who do sweaty stuff off-pavement.
  — Mike Steere, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
• One spectator tilts his head upward in a state of pure rapture.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• Surely this will be a moment of rapture and self-love straight out of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
  — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 22 Dec. 2017
• These six books speak to the complexity of having siblings, in all its rapture and mess.
  — Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2022
• There such novels hang, too, amid the misty romance of the past, fearful that the red-hot glow of rapture no longer waits faithfully on the horizon.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2020
• Paul Tazewell’s costumes) and the unifying sweep of the camera produce a special kind of rapture.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Standing in the middle of the living room with the vents and Vornado all working in concert was pure rapture.
  — Craig Mod, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
• People laughed to see the plastic bags, which had fallen from the ceiling, fly upward in the film—a kind of sacred rapture for litter.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• But let Allen explain what for now is the rapture that is happening within the bonds of this team, and by extension, its fans.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 7 Oct. 2017
• Anyone working in health care still enjoys the rapture of action.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2020
• Ibrahimovic wasn't done there, however, and sent the home fans into raptures with a 91st-minute winner.
  — SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024