Sentence examples for intoxicate from inspiring English sources
The word 'intoxicate' is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to describe the feeling of being intoxicated by alcohol, drugs, or even something pleasurable, such as music. For example, "The music filled the room and intoxicated everyone with its melodies."
verb
To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
The lowlight: Naysayers say it's all been done before, but on a sunny Friday afternoon in California, the Allah-Las still intoxicate.
In his attempts to lampoon his predecessors, Lucian describes a flight to the moon, interplanetary warfare, and alien life forms, an example of which being a crossbreed of women and grape vines who intoxicate and thus ensnare their victims.
I trailed Mr Benn around his packed meetings in Brighton; he was a brilliant, serious but funny speaker who could intoxicate his adoring audience – and, for a while, even sceptical journalists like me.
"It made me realise that life is too short to intoxicate my body with booze and drugs.
His compositions panegyrics of rulers and succinct verses (which are still quoted)—have never ceased to intoxicate the Arabs by their daring hyperbole, their marvelous sound effects, and their formal perfection.
Unfortunately, Eric Schaeffer, who has directed the stage version of the show (at the Neil Simon), thinks the champagne air that Gigi lives in is enough to intoxicate his audience, but how can we be distracted from the strangeness of Vanessa Hudgens's performance, which seems too mincingly coquettish by half.
More and more people are cutting back or cutting out – and that's before you get to those who don't self-intoxicate for cultural, religious, pregnancy or health reasons.
"Most came back and said: 'Wow, I haven't had something like this since I left the police academy.'" "We have been intoxicated with bad policing in America for a long time," says borough president Adams, "and we have refused to acknowledge that drunkenness.
The Western Bulldogs edged out West Coast in an intoxicating first-round contest, winning by 10 points to hand coach Luke Beveridge a winning debut as a coach.
Track was "heavily intoxicated," and at first acted belligerently toward police, but Sarah Palin told him to talk to Officer Daily.
Klingenmeyer, at whose house all this happened, and who appeared to Daily to be only "moderately intoxicated," told the officer that he was angry the Palins had shown up and were causing problems.
