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Example sentences for "intoxicant"

Lexicographically close words:
intone; intoned; intones; intoning; intorno; intoxicants; intoxicate; intoxicated; intoxicates; intoxicating
  1. The mature man is likely to be dissatisfied with poetry so unsubstantial as this even as an intoxicant and still more when it is offered to him as the “ideal.

  2. The juice of a species of asclepias produces the intoxicant soma, used once by the Brahmins, not only as a drink, but also in sacrificial and religious ceremonies.

  3. Cannabis sativa produces an intoxicant that in Turkey is known as hadschy, in Arabia and India as hashish, and to the Hottentots as dacha, and serves as a drunkard's food in other lands.

  4. You are certainly pressed for subjects about which to complain when you resort to criticising the possibilities in creations of a mind under the influence of a more powerful intoxicant than is known to surface earth," he remarked.

  5. I consider the account of the intra-earth fungus intoxicant beyond the realm of fact.

  6. Parahaoma, or 'homa,' is an intoxicant made from a lost plant that is described as having yellow blossoms, used by the ancient dissolute Persians from the day of Zoroaster.

  7. Samshoo, a fiery distillation from rice, is the intoxicant of Japan, and was that of China before opium took its place.

  8. What but the natural craving of mankind for some intoxicant or narcotic "to make glad the heart of man" can have brought about the independent discovery and use of so many stimulants?

  9. She lay there staring up at him, as if some intoxicant had got into her veins, paralyzing motion and emotion.

  10. Instead of conscience making cowards of us all, passion makes brutes of us all, and we forget conscience and cowardice, too, under the intoxicant of a woman's smile.

  11. Every early consent to its use involves a lurking pledge to repeat the poison, till soon strong cords of the intoxicant appetite bind the now yielding victim.

  12. It is a powerful intoxicant and narcotico-acrid poison.

  13. The use of opium as a stimulant and intoxicant is common among the nations of the East.

  14. The men join in with hoarser cries and animate themselves for the business in hand by deep draughts of an intoxicant which has been provided for the occasion by the parents-in-law.

  15. Meantime the mother, assisted by the women of the neighbourhood, has brewed a large quantity of the native intoxicant called chicha, and poured it into wooden troughs and palm leaves.

  16. Yet the governance of the mind, the sole arena in which the intoxicant ravened and rioted, the logical faculty to which sense-impression is but material, was astray.

  17. As an intoxicant love affects one differently from liquor.

  18. This intoxicant was much used by magicians to produce ecstacy and thus to "deify themselves and receive the homage of the genii and spirits of nature.

  19. The intoxicant and curse of their lives is túlapai, or tizwin as it is sometimes called.

  20. And so far it has not been proved to either his or my satisfaction that the intoxicant is poteen.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intoxicant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcohol; beverage; booze; brew; drink; grog; liquor; potable; potation; rum; schnapps; spirits