INTOXICATION in a Sentence
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62 example sentences for INTOXICATION, such as:
1. At the peak of the climber, not intoxicated in a step along the way.
2. On summer evenings the flowers gave forth an almost intoxicating scent.
3. In the state of intoxication she was in, everything seemed simple and natural.
4. He was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful intoxication.
5. All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in intoxication.
2. On summer evenings the flowers gave forth an almost intoxicating scent.
3. In the state of intoxication she was in, everything seemed simple and natural.
4. He was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful intoxication.
5. All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in intoxication.
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Meanings and Examples of INTOXICATION
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intoxication
n. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
n. the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty.
2 These four legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes.
3 The wanton and vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around these two innocents, and they uttered words of love which set the trees to trembling.
4 Ideas recur to him with abrupt lucidity; the obliteration of intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity of realities.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
5 An order of nolle prosequi, founded on his well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, had set him at liberty.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
6 The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
7 All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in intoxication.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
8 Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of the tomb were seizing hold upon him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY
9 He was at that period of intoxication in which vulgar drinkers fall on the floor and go to sleep.
10 There were moments of such positive intoxication, of such happiness, that there was not the faintest trace of irony within me, on my honour.
11 He was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful intoxication.
12 In the state of intoxication she was in, everything seemed simple and natural.
13 As to the washerwoman pawning the clothes, and coming in a state of penitent intoxication to apologize, I suppose that might have happened several times to anybody.
14 The intoxication of the news that Kitty was not married had gradually begun to work upon him.
15 When she thought that he was there at hand, waiting for her, she grew numb with the intoxication of expectancy.
Example Sentence:
1 Instead, the trial court advised the jury that intoxication is not a defense to that crime under any circumstances.
2 At the peak of the climber, not intoxicated in a step along the way.
3 On summer evenings the flowers gave forth an almost intoxicating scent.
4 Marijuana's emergence as the drug of choice of the '60s had little to do with medicinal and industrial applications and everything to do with its profound power to intoxicate an entire generation.