How to Use ecstasy in a Sentence

ecstasy

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  • His performance sent the audience into ecstasies.
  • The marijuana and ecstasy were seized, and a warrant was issued for Davis.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Moaning wildly in ecstasy, her children are disturbed, as witnesses to their mother’s pleasure, but Beverly’s lost herself in the pursuit of pleasure.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 31 July 2024
  • By the final minutes, the fans who packed the plaza in a sea of gold and blue were in ecstasy.
    — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
  • These two sequences are the ecstasy and the agony of Batfleck.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • For Miyamoto, the film had to mirror the agony and ecstasy of playing a video game.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • On the other side of the room, a therapy dog swung its tail in ecstasy.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Jansen thinks often about the agony and ecstasy of his Olympic career — and of that salute to his sister.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Wolf, the crowd erupted in a cathartic kind of ecstasy.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Ah, to be returned again to the ecstasy of Bach in Par after so many long years of waiting!
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The super-delicate crunch of the puffy taco results in the same ecstasy — and the same crumbles.
    — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But these are the stories of my fear, my neuroses, my ecstasy and my journey.
    — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The ecstasy of the front row…a spiritual residue that remains on the surface of my skin for at least an hour.
    — Kate Berlant, ELLE, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But the signs offer the promise of ecstasy from within.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • Lopez was stopped for speeding and during the stop, Lopez was found to be in possession of ecstasy.
    — Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Only yesterday the four of us took ecstasy in a stranger’s bed.
    — Zach Linge, The Atlantic, 31 July 2022
  • The ecstasy pills were shaped like grenades and Transformers.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The cause of death was found to be a mix of cocaine, ethanol (alcohol) and MDA (a relative of ecstasy).
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
  • One night, while watching a BDSM film online, she is transfixed by the expression of fear and ecstasy on the girl’s face.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The agony and the ecstasy of dating might well be determined via the use of generative AI.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Ryan Reynolds went from joy to despair, and punch-the-air ecstasy to desolation.
    — Steve Douglas, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The tests showed that, aside from minimal amounts of ecstasy, there were no other drugs in his system.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Bale ran to the corner of the pitch, and, having been an expressionless bystander for much of the evening, shouted in ecstasy.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Harris offered to sell cocaine, ecstasy or LSD and suggested the 17-year-old sell the drugs in school, Sweet said.
    — oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Life revolved around my Old Street flatshare, and dinner was an ecstasy tablet served on a china plate with a knife and fork.
    — Cj Thurlow, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Pen and Colin are in their own little world of ecstasy, baby.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2024
  • Lakers fandom is an agony and an ecstasy that few sports fans will ever know.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Ziskin is an ex-convict who spent more than a decade behind bars after he was caught smuggling the drug ecstasy into the US in 2000.
    — Scott McLean, CNN, 24 Oct. 2021
  • To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2021
  • It’s in fake Xanax and Percocets, it’s being laced in cocaine and ecstasy.
    — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2022

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