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Example sentences for "intoxicates"

Lexicographically close words:
intorno; intoxicant; intoxicants; intoxicate; intoxicated; intoxicating; intoxication; intra; intracellular; intracranial
  1. Flattery intoxicates me, and a success, a triumph over others, fills me with the wildest delight.

  2. This intoxicates one like wine--wine intoxicates the mind, but perfume intoxicates the imagination.

  3. It intoxicates one more than wine; wine intoxicates the mind, but perfume intoxicates the imagination.

  4. Can it be merely a coincidence that this rare word is used of none other than the fairy-tale hero who is favoured by fortune, and of the lucky finder of the wild grapes, by eating which he intoxicates himself?

  5. But in delicious, blossoming May, when the joy of living fairly intoxicates one, and every bird's throat is swelling with happy music, who but a Calvinist would croak dismal prophecies?

  6. To swing in a loop made by some strong old vine, when the air almost intoxicates one with its sweetness on a June evening, is many a country child's idea of perfect bliss.

  7. Success intoxicates a man and strengthens his self-confidence.

  8. Therefore do not laugh too much at baby if his first pair of breeches intoxicates him, if, when he wears them, he thinks his shadow longer and the trees less high.

  9. The whole of this little body has a perfume which intoxicates me and makes my heart leap.

  10. The ideal which intoxicates least is the very ideal ideal; that sobers us suddenly, as all heights and precipices and great distances do.

  11. But the ideal which intoxicates most is the least idealistic kind of ideal.

  12. The happiness of an hour intoxicates him, and he defies his coming fate; he should know that happiness is a fleeting guest, but that misfortune is the constant companion of man.

  13. But obscurity isn't a thing to aim at for anyone who is trying to write; it may be, in the case of a great writer, a sort of vociferousness which intoxicates you: and the man may convey a kind of inspiration by his very obscurities.

  14. It intoxicates you, makes you feel creepy, goes to the tips of your fingers.

  15. It is a feast of blood, a feast that maddens armies and that intoxicates civilians, women and children, who read, by lamplight at night, the feverish story of massacre.

  16. Is it the seduction of her beauty and youth, which intoxicates one like wine?

  17. Whatever you may have said or done, you understand, while you are in power--and power intoxicates men!

  18. But whether he comes from Corrèze, from Garonne or Isère, it is always as a Provincial that he arrives in Paris, the air of which intoxicates him.

  19. It is the wine which inspires new creations, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and intoxicates their spirit!

  20. America "still hangs blossoming in the garden of time, while her penetrating perfume floats all round the world, and intoxicates all other nations with the hope of liberty.

  21. While whipping me, Wanda's face acquired more and more of the cruel, contemptuous character, which so haunts and intoxicates me.

  22. What you have just done inflames my blood and intoxicates all my senses.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intoxicates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.