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Example sentences for "ravishing"

Lexicographically close words:
ravish; ravished; ravisher; ravishers; ravishes; ravishingly; ravishment; ravisht; raw; rawa
  1. But see that ravishing placard, swinging from the roof: 'This train stops twenty minutes for dinner at Utica.

  2. Now, if ever in their lives, they are charmingly dressed, and ravishing toilets take the willing eye from the objects of interest.

  3. Was it not, indeed, strange that he had taken from a life of misery this creature, of ravishing beauty and of no common mind?

  4. We have described the charming face, the exquisite elegance, the ravishing bearing of Saint Remy, arrived the previous evening from Arnouville Farm, belonging to the Duchess Lucenay, where he had found a refuge from the bailiffs.

  5. It was a ravishing sight, which the world only was allowed to enjoy for this one day.

  6. But as the ravishing notes of her sweet voice died upon the air, her hands sank listlessly to her side.

  7. But what is this new and ravishing light that breaks upon her?

  8. God of his infinite mercy, continue and improve the ravishing prospect!

  9. One can never forget his morning visit to the American Falls when the sunlight comes from the required angles, heightening the beauty of the whole wild mass of waters, sifting in ravishing splendor through the clouds of drifting spray.

  10. From the ravishing beauty of the scene, our minds fell to musing over that other race who had dwelt here, whose destiny the coming of the white man changed.

  11. To enjoy a harem recruited from amongst the most ravishing beauties, and often from the ranks of neophytes, with whom pleasure had its difficulties, one would have needed to be a god, and Louis XV.

  12. Veronique looked ravishing in her scanty attire, and as she laughed I could not be angry with her.

  13. My mouth had already covered with kisses that ravishing bosom; but then the troublesome corset had not allowed me to admire all its perfection.

  14. The more innocent I found her to be, the less I could make up my mind to possess myself of that ravishing prey.

  15. Need I say what an ardent fire that ravishing sight sent coursing through my veins?

  16. I bowed and he went out with Lastic, leaving me alone with this ravishing beauty.

  17. We were waited on by five or six country girls of ravishing beauty, dressed with exquisite neatness.

  18. My young friend's mistress was a very pretty girl, but his sister was a ravishing beauty.

  19. Two fine black eyes shed a soft and ravishing light around.

  20. My gaze fed hungrily on the two little half-spheres, which were not yet ripe, but so white as to make me guess how ravishing the rest of her body must be.

  21. I sat gazing at three naked bodies of perfect grace and beauty, the dance and the music were ravishing and seductive, but nothing made any impression on me.

  22. I had not seen her for seventeen years, but she looked as beautiful and ravishing as ever as she came forward on the stage.

  23. Sabinus, and a number of little gilt men who played the trumpet into the bargain, without counting the ravishing chimes which it scattered in the air on every possible occasion, without your knowing why.

  24. It was now December; and a few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness slipped away.

  25. The new chief officer brings a woman, a ravishing creature, on board in secret.

  26. He sat down on the settee, and she seated herself close beside him, smiling with such ravishing abandon that he forgot the reason for his concern.

  27. Submarines, coming round from Pola, could run into rocky inlets in the evening and would find immense stocks of oil, in cans, cached under savage rocks up the ravines of almost uninhabited islets of ravishing beauty.

  28. True, but the old one knew of some ravishing creature surely who would respond to the delicate attentions of a lonely exile.

  29. You are the same, with 'ravishing divisions' upon the same.

  30. The distinguishing trait of his music is its rich melodic beauty and its almost ravishing sweetness.

  31. I hate dark eyes and black hair and all your over-ripe Southern beauty; I wonder I ever gave it a thought; it is so commonplace beside the charm of the ravishing blond.

  32. It was something infinitely less ravishing and less worthy of our regret.

  33. Gentle and low was that sweet music when it began; but by degrees it grew louder—though still soft and ravishing in the extreme.

  34. In sooth, the scene was ravishing and gorgeous within Old Drury on the night of which we are writing.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ravishing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alluring; appealing; appetizing; attractive; beaming; beguiling; bewitching; breathtaking; bright; brilliant; captivating; catching; charged; charismatic; charming; coquettish; dazzling; delightful; devastating; disquieting; disturbing; divine; electrical; enchanting; engaging; enthralling; enticing; entrancing; exciting; exhilarating; exotic; exquisite; fascinating; fetching; flirtatious; galvanic; glamorous; glorious; glowing; gorgeous; heady; heavenly; hypnotic; impressive; inflammatory; interesting; intoxicating; intriguing; inviting; irresistible; jarring; jolting; killing; lovable; lovely; luxurious; maddening; mesmeric; moving; overpowering; overwhelming; perturbing; piquant; prepossessing; provocative; provoking; radiant; raving; resplendent; seductive; sensuous; shining; siren; sparkling; splendid; stimulating; stirring; striking; stunning; sublime; taking; tantalizing; teasing; telling; tempting; thrilling; tickling; titillating; troubling; unsettling; upsetting; voluptuous; winning; winsome; witching