(v. t.) To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a sign of the cross from the steps of his plane, Pope Francis concluded a historic visit to the US on Sunday night, taking off from Philadelphia and heading back to Rome after six days which enraptured – and challenged – his hosts.
(2) The wild chanting for the"Wolf" by enraptured staff was reportedly echoed on real-life Wall Street when Morgan Stanley's John Mack returned to the bank in 2005 after a stint at Credit Suisse First Boston.
(3) The country became enraptured by a circus around a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
(4) As the townsfolk listened enraptured, I half-expected Gerald Finley (sublime as Sachs) to urge his fellow guildsmen to “take back control”.
(5) Via nefarious means I've watched two episodes of Lilyhammer , BBC4's brand new "not very good thing with subtitles we're hoping to keep The Killing audience enraptured with", where a New York mob boss (Steven Van Zandt) goes into hiding in Norway with hilarious results.
(6) Liverpool supporters were not the only ones enraptured by his performance at Anfield.
(7) Updated at 9.29am BST 9.01am BST I feel like slipping Steve Hewlett a twenty and thanking him for a good half hour on the couch for this: "Home advantage, a soft draw, systematic fouling and indulgence by the officials; this Brazil squad has been an unlovable spoilt brat of a team and that's why you, I and many others enraptured by Brazilian teams of the past have spent the past half week confusingly comfortable in our schadenfreude.
(8) You know what God loves most?” he asked the crowd, hushed and enraptured on a moonlit night.
(9) I also am enraptured by the shield function (3:58), although I question the dedication of the guy with the stick.
(10) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
(11) When I was younger, it was this second half that enraptured me: the rush of the hunt (on both sides); the thrill of not knowing who would and wouldn't survive; and the pain of how much this affected the characters.
(12) A few minutes later, the unheralded long jumper from Milton Keynes was preparing his final leap and taking the acclaim of the enraptured crowd as Farah was easing through the gears in a 10,000m final that would end with the Somalia-born, London-raised distance runner winning the first British gold in over a century.
(13) While most children his age would have wept from boredom, Salazar said he felt enraptured, as though he needed to be a part of what was going on.
(14) She got behind her own music so had to improvise, not that the enraptured audience holding their breath in the stands would have known.
(15) 2008 Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, meets Gaddafi and apparently enraptures the Libyan leader: an album of photographs of her will be later found in his Tripoli compound after the regime's fall in 2011.
(16) According to Rodgers, what enraptures listeners – and you can hear it, he says, on the Daft Punk album – is disco's "complex simplicity".
(17) Cameron’s decision to participate in 2010 has reached mythical status in some Tory circles, allowing the fresh-faced upstart Nick Clegg to enrapture those previously drawn to Tory modernisation.
(18) Then we pay for the costs they kindly dump on us: the floods, the extra water purification necessitated by the pollution they cause, the loss of so many precious and beautiful places, the decline of wildlife that enchants and enraptures.
Enraptured
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Enrapture
Example Sentences:
(1) With a sign of the cross from the steps of his plane, Pope Francis concluded a historic visit to the US on Sunday night, taking off from Philadelphia and heading back to Rome after six days which enraptured – and challenged – his hosts.
(2) The wild chanting for the"Wolf" by enraptured staff was reportedly echoed on real-life Wall Street when Morgan Stanley's John Mack returned to the bank in 2005 after a stint at Credit Suisse First Boston.
(3) The country became enraptured by a circus around a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
(4) As the townsfolk listened enraptured, I half-expected Gerald Finley (sublime as Sachs) to urge his fellow guildsmen to “take back control”.
(5) Via nefarious means I've watched two episodes of Lilyhammer , BBC4's brand new "not very good thing with subtitles we're hoping to keep The Killing audience enraptured with", where a New York mob boss (Steven Van Zandt) goes into hiding in Norway with hilarious results.
(6) Liverpool supporters were not the only ones enraptured by his performance at Anfield.
(7) Updated at 9.29am BST 9.01am BST I feel like slipping Steve Hewlett a twenty and thanking him for a good half hour on the couch for this: "Home advantage, a soft draw, systematic fouling and indulgence by the officials; this Brazil squad has been an unlovable spoilt brat of a team and that's why you, I and many others enraptured by Brazilian teams of the past have spent the past half week confusingly comfortable in our schadenfreude.
(8) You know what God loves most?” he asked the crowd, hushed and enraptured on a moonlit night.
(9) I also am enraptured by the shield function (3:58), although I question the dedication of the guy with the stick.
(10) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
(11) When I was younger, it was this second half that enraptured me: the rush of the hunt (on both sides); the thrill of not knowing who would and wouldn't survive; and the pain of how much this affected the characters.
(12) A few minutes later, the unheralded long jumper from Milton Keynes was preparing his final leap and taking the acclaim of the enraptured crowd as Farah was easing through the gears in a 10,000m final that would end with the Somalia-born, London-raised distance runner winning the first British gold in over a century.
(13) While most children his age would have wept from boredom, Salazar said he felt enraptured, as though he needed to be a part of what was going on.
(14) She got behind her own music so had to improvise, not that the enraptured audience holding their breath in the stands would have known.
(15) 2008 Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, meets Gaddafi and apparently enraptures the Libyan leader: an album of photographs of her will be later found in his Tripoli compound after the regime's fall in 2011.
(16) According to Rodgers, what enraptures listeners – and you can hear it, he says, on the Daft Punk album – is disco's "complex simplicity".
(17) Cameron’s decision to participate in 2010 has reached mythical status in some Tory circles, allowing the fresh-faced upstart Nick Clegg to enrapture those previously drawn to Tory modernisation.
(18) Then we pay for the costs they kindly dump on us: the floods, the extra water purification necessitated by the pollution they cause, the loss of so many precious and beautiful places, the decline of wildlife that enchants and enraptures.