Example sentences for: intoxicating

How can you use “intoxicating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the end of 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act outlawing the manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating beverages.

  • With its vibrant atmosphere and night-and-day activity it is an intoxicating place.

  • Barcelona’s most famous boulevard — energetic, artistic, democratic, and indulgent — is an intoxicating parade of humanity.

  • A partial list of Giacomo diminutives-- pet names that translate essentially as little Jimmy--is as liquid and intoxicating as Sambuca: Giacomello, Giammelli, Iacomelli, Comello, Comellini, Mello, Giacometti, Giametti, Giamitti, Iacometti, Iamitti, Cometto, Giacomini, Iacomini, Cominello, Comini, Cominetti, Cominotti, Cominoli, Giacomucci, Giacomuzzi, Giamuzzi, Giamusso, Comucci, Comuzzo, Comusso, Mucci, Mucilo, Muccino, Muzzi, Muzzini, Muzzillo, Muzzolo, Muzzullo, Musso, Mussetti, Mussettini, Muselli, Mussili, Mussotti, Mussolini, Giacomozzo, Camosso, Mozzi, Mozzini, Mozzetti, Comolli, Camolli, Comoletti, Camoletto, Commizzoli, Mizzi, Motto, Mottini , and Mottinelli .

  • Praise also goes to Fitzgerald's command of dialogue: "The conversations are many-voiced, sharp-witted and finely tuned enough to allow the reader to hear plangent undernotes and to feel the intoxicating buzz that good talk emits" (Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the Sunday Times ).


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