How to Use ravish in a Sentence

ravish

verb

• Jupiter ravished Leda as a swan and carried off Ganymede as an eagle.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• The Van Gogh Museum shines a light on the ravishing work of an artist who died tragically in 2019.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024
• The 33-year-old actress posed in a series of looks—all of which were truly ravishing, including one free-the-nipple snap.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 23 Mar. 2023
• The country superstar looked ravishing in red in a flowing gown with a cut-out, sequined bodice.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Anne Hathaway made a ravishing appearance at the 2023 Met Gala.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• Her lithe body is covered in ravishing dots of color that could be her skin, a high-end leotard or a life-threatening rash.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Caroline had seen fit to have her pony make the homeward trip with its hindquarters thrust into Delphine’s ravished clothes.
  — Zora Neale Hurston, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• The energy that his camera locates is beyond the glamour of the stage and the excesses of the band and their crew, beyond the ravishing purple stage lights and the backstage boredom.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Her music, though, is the most sublime in an opera that remains consistently ravishing for its full three hours.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Fans who tune in to be ravished by the show’s psychedelia and then dissect it on Reddit will be satisfied, and skeptics who see Hawley as a mascot for the excesses of peak TV may still do so.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2018
• Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world’s poorest before the conflict began.
  — Washington Post, 14 June 2018
• Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the conflict began.
  — Fox News, 14 June 2018
• Little served only three months in jail after being convicted of assault with the intent to ravish-rape for the crime in December 1976.
  — Kyle Swenson, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• As floods begin to ravish Wakanda, and the underwater nation of Talocan is left without a protector, there won’t be a better time to strike.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
• August and September are best for bear viewing, and April is ravishing for short inland excursions: there is still snow, and there are few visitors.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2018
• Consider the centuries of ravishing Catholic artworks: medieval altarpieces, Raphael Madonnas, the stained glass at Chartres.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 10 May 2018
• Some destinations boast clear waters and black sands while others are tucked behind thick forests with ravishing cliffsides.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Pinned to the wall are what look like photographs of old statues — all these realms of artifice, illusion, reality, a world ravished in lunar beauty.
  — Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever, Vulture, 11 May 2023
• The choral music flips back and forth from the bamboo grove to the center of the atrium and to speakers installed on the baobab tree, creating sonic experiences of intimacy, grandeur and ravishing beauty.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• My clients’ ravishing daughters started wearing them as everyday dresses or for going to parties, off-the-shoulder and belted, with flat sandals or high heels or boots.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 June 2019
• The soprano Angel Blue pauses in the spotlight, turns to the audience, and sings ravishing music with subtlety and power, just as divas have been doing for centuries.
  — Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024
• Either way, there’s no denying all of the ravishing style moments that established and rising vocalists delivered in 2023.
  — Candace Cordelia, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
• The House will vote Thursday on a disaster relief bill following a series of devastating hurricanes and massive wildfires that have ravished parts of the United States.
  — Daniella Diaz, CNN, 12 Oct. 2017
• In the second act, once peace has been reëstablished, Balanchine provides a suite of courtly dances, the pinnacle of which is a ravishing pas de deux illustrating love’s Platonic ideal.
  — The New Yorker, 23 May 2017
• Dewdrop, who leads the Waltz of the Flowers, has five entrances altogether — short bursts of ravishing, effervescent dancing, with turns and jumps that appear and disappear as quickly as a dew falling from a petal.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The score was made to ravish, Zemlinsky being a master of breathtakingly lush orchestration.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• For centuries, Persians had cultivated ravishing visions of paradise in their walled gardens, sometimes as emblems of the higher garden that awaits the fortunate.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• Social media was dazzled by the brand's Crushed Diamond Illuminators and sparkly lip glosses, which looked ravishing on deeper skin tones.
  — refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• An unresolved culture war, plus the ravishing effects of the pandemic, have sewn bleakness and disillusionment into Chilean music.
  — Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
• Everything in Bonnard’s mature paintings threatens to dissolve into sheets of ravishing, unstable color and a dizzying array of marks.
  — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024