Sentence examples for an illicit thrill from inspiring English sources

"It's more of an illicit thrill now," he said.

I opened the wallet with an illicit thrill.

What if he gets an illicit thrill from scrolling through those numbers but would never take it any further?

When he was booed walking to his polling place, did he get an illicit thrill from the anger?

That many of rock'n'roll's early progenitors were black gave it an illicit thrill and helped sell it in truckloads to freckled white kids.

Jane presumably gets an illicit thrill from those terrifying images, making her the ancestor of those who find nothing more consoling in the cold, dark months of winter than an evening home alone with one of Stephen King's grislier novels.

Dancing in the outdoors with a crowd of strangers was a rare pleasure, a secret, illicit thrill.

In two of them, oddly, a prostitute appears and becomes an alluring, mysterious figure to the narrator's younger self, bearing a hint of illicit thrill.

"We used to read it to each other after lights out as a kind of illicit thrill," he recalled.

But the death of the classic meter also means an end to some of New York's smaller pleasures: the satisfying clunk of a coin in its slot, the illicit thrill of finding an extra few minutes still counting down.

Never knowing the illicit thrill of a clandestine kiss and a damp roll-up with a sixth former behind the bike sheds on a dark November afternoon.