How to Use rapture in a Sentence

rapture

noun
  • He listened to the wind in the trees, his eyes closed in rapture.
  • We listened with rapture as the orchestra played.
  • Who would be taken in the rapture?
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Her ghost of a smile should be parsed as beatific rapture.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That was my first taste of the rapture that is giving away baby things.
    — Elyssa Friedland, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
  • To hear that in a lullaby, to hear it in anger or rapture, is an aha moment.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Dylan Mulvaney came dressed and ready for the rapture.
    — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The essence of that scene is victory and rapture and feeling good about yourself.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 June 2023
  • This is a show about the rapture of play, family lore, and bouncing tennis balls.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
  • Anyone working in health care still enjoys the rapture of action.
    — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Was there a rapture in the AJLT universe?
    — Zach Schiffman, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Like the idea of the Rapture — punishment for just being alive and a person.
    — Justin Caffier, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If the rapture is indeed imminent, expect the raver pop-rock princess to party all the way to the end of the world.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Half of women said they would be transported to heaven in the event of the rapture, while 42% of men said the same.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Parts of the book evince an excitement for the unknown, a thrill not unlike the rapture of Febos’s past.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
  • What are faith leaders saying about the 2025 Rapture?
    — Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
  • As noted by the Times reporters in Asia, there hasn’t been a Rapture there either.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The rapture refers to the end of times in some Christian denominations.
    — Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • At its best, this big-screen version of the fin de siècle TV series evokes the rapture of the shallows.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 May 2017
  • What To Know Predictions of a rapture are nothing new.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • More often, the evocation is more a matter of feeling and spirit, a kind of low-key, pensive rapture.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • But to take those experiences and explode them into comic rapture?
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Ibrahimovic wasn't done there, however, and sent the home fans into raptures with a 91st-minute winner.
    — SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • If watching big wave surfing summons the rapture of a horror movie, longboarding clips are more like the pleasure of a moody road trip film.
    — Eunica Escalante, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2021
  • People laughed to see the plastic bags, which had fallen from the ceiling, fly upward in the film—a kind of sacred rapture for litter.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
  • If the rapture were to occur, many Americans say they’d be left behind, according to new polling.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Some agents’ eyes glazed over when the couple talked about the fishing lodge, but the mention of orcas and black bears commanded complete rapture.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 7 May 2022
  • Surely this will be a moment of rapture and self-love straight out of Our Bodies, Ourselves.
    — Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Sun on snow or water will be too bright, but the Rydon ($250) is rapture for those who do sweaty stuff off-pavement.
    — Mike Steere, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
  • The pandemic sparked a wave of rapture predictions, with some claiming the global crisis was the final sign.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025

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