How to Use ravishing in a Sentence

ravishing

adjective

• She is a ravishing beauty.
• And not worry so much about making the food look ravishing.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The 24-year-old actress looked ravishing in a custom Louis Vuitton gown, with a daring thigh-high slit to that corset top.
  — James Love, Essence, 22 Sep. 2019
• White morphs are snowy in winter and brown-grey in summer, while blue morphs stay a ravishing indigo, brown and charcoal mix year-round.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• Cyrus looked ravishing in a black sweetheart neckline dress by Saint Laurent.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2019
• Laura Owens’ silk-screened and embroidered series of trees on silk, from 2003, is just ravishing.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Beijing's Parkview Green shopping mall is a towering wedge of steel and glass where China's young and ravishing gather to browse and be seen.
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 30 June 2017
• Some of the items, like the Armani suits, are thrilling to see up close because the textiles are so ravishing, their construction so evidently skilled.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Her ravishing vision is told from the point of view of kids left behind in a deserted town where Los Huascas, a cruel gang, governs.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• Max wanted his freedom to do his own thing, experience the fullness of life, and follow his heart into the arms of the ravishing young Florence Deshon.
  — Daniel Oppenheimer, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
• Travel Leisure rounded up some of the globe's most ravishing regions — guaranteed to brighten up your day.
  — Beth J. Harpaz, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The old tricks — the ravishing smile, the glowing Instagram account, the spot-on television performances — fail to enchant.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Cut, 14 May 2017
• And a ravishing actress in a beaded gown who is made to repeat fragments of one speech — about lying for a living — as the lights are adjusted during a tech rehearsal.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and Rihanna’s ability to turn out a ravishing look for any occasion.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 5 Aug. 2019
• The trout, which weighed between eight and nine pounds, was gorgeous: speckled yellow on top, the underbelly a ravishing orange-red with black spots above, which had within them a corona of blue and red.
  — John Lahr, Esquire, 16 June 2016
• In this ravishing nonfiction feature, the Italian artist Yuri Ancarani trains a steady eye on a familiar tribe: young, restless men with a great deal of time and even greater amount of money.
  — Manohla Dargis and A.o. Scott, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• Every fetishized element — the glorious house, the tiled pool, Marianne’s Dior outfits and the scrubbiest of vistas — looks ravishing, ready for a close-up, too.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 3 May 2016
• A pink diamond by any other name is, after all, just as rare—and this particular rock is ravishing enough to catch the world’s attention without any words at all.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 5 Apr. 2017
• The gold medal pair won the internet’s heart this year with a ravishing dance in the team competition to a dramatic medley from the Moulin Rouge movie, demonstrating serious chemistry.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
• Frances was a ravishing redhead, and it was rumored that Nast was interested in her, but my grandfather succeeded in winning her hand.
  — Liz Goldwyn, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2014
• One of the most ravishing figures may have been intended for purely medical uses: Alphonse Lami’s 1857 flayed, or écorché, figure.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• Lipa looks ravishing in vibrant vintage wear; Harris looks stoic and cool as a poolside waiter, but the funky puppets, with their handlers showing, really steal the show.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 May 2018
• In the soft pink dusk, as a perfect full moon rose out of the mountains, even the execrable post war concrete buildings below that so despoil the landscape here and throughout this ravishing island somehow managed to fade before nature’s majesty.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 11 July 2017
• But between the influx of modern beauty disruptors like Rihanna and Zendaya, and the 2019 Met Gala bringing the ethos of camp back into the collective conscious, here's hoping it's primed for a ravishing comeback.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 2 May 2019
• 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
• Nicole Duennebier’s paintings imagine undersea life in the manner of 17th-century Dutch still lifes, heaving with ravishing abundance.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
• From the Mottahedeh tobacco-leaf chargers to the vintage bohemian glassware to the guavas and kumquats interspersed among the flowers, everything was wild and unexpected and ravishing.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 12 July 2019
• Geodes with mirrors The mirrored rooms that are the heart of the show are ravishing environments that invite you to step from the spare loft space of a museum gallery into expansive worlds hidden like geodes within Kusama's minimalist containers.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
• Marienbad’ to the present moment; its ravishing surfaces, somehow both diamond-hard and evanescent, exist gloriously outside of time.
  — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Lost in all the recent chatter about the Zika virus, political corruption, and economic collapse is the fact that this is one of the most visually ravishing—and topographically extreme—corners of the planet.
  — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016

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