Sentence examples for were in raptures from inspiring English sources

His opponents were in raptures.

Brighton fans were in raptures.

Italy were in raptures, Wales in despair.

To my annoyance, my guests were in raptures.

At the Water Rats last week the crowd were in raptures, even if none of them looked like The Rapture.

The 18,000 Luton fans, some waving straw boaters in delight in the Holte End, were in raptures.

They were in rapture to the event, where previous hosts Moscow and Daegu reeked of indifference, and it made a welcome respite from the doping headlines.

The cats on the roof make better music!'", but the modernists were in rapture.

There was an interview with Sobers himself, ailing now but articulate in talking about life, times and that innings; Michael Parkinson was in raptures and so too Sir Ian Botham, someone similarly not lacking in a lifestyle that would fell an ox and who, curiously, made his Test debut on Sobers' 41st birthday (something in the stars perhaps).

The room was in raptures.

The crowd is in raptures & Adams is lapping it up!