How to Use ecstasy in a Sentence

ecstasy

noun
  • His performance sent the audience into ecstasies.
  • At first, drugs were just a fun thing to do on weekends — ecstasy and cocaine with her friends.
    April Dembosky, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
  • My identities had collapsed onto one another, too, in these moments of private ecstasy.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Carlson says, as Jaws stretches out his neck in what looks to be the Galápagos tortoise version of extreme ecstasy.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Ford pleaded guilty in December to possession with the intent to distribute ecstasy.
    oregonlive.com, 10 July 2019
  • Officials warned that because fentanyl is often used to lace other drugs like cocaine, ecstasy and oxycodone, students may ingest it accidentally.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Other Schedule 1 drugs include heroin, LSD and ecstasy.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2019
  • The quick change from ecstasy to agony left the Knights with a 3-2 record on the season.
    Brian Murphy, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • By the final minutes, the fans who packed the plaza in a sea of gold and blue were in ecstasy.
    Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2023
  • These two sequences are the ecstasy and the agony of Batfleck.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Yes, those props are meant to look like ecstasy tablets.
    Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2020
  • For Miyamoto, the film had to mirror the agony and ecstasy of playing a video game.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • On the other side of the room, a therapy dog swung its tail in ecstasy.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Jansen thinks often about the agony and ecstasy of his Olympic career — and of that salute to his sister.
    Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Wolf, the crowd erupted in a cathartic kind of ecstasy.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Ah, to be returned again to the ecstasy of Bach in Par after so many long years of waiting!
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The super-delicate crunch of the puffy taco results in the same ecstasy — and the same crumbles.
    Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But these are the stories of my fear, my neuroses, my ecstasy and my journey.
    Niko Stratis, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The ecstasy of the front row…a spiritual residue that remains on the surface of my skin for at least an hour.
    Kate Berlant, ELLE, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But the signs offer the promise of ecstasy from within.
    Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • The victory, Italy’s first in the World Cup since 1938, brought ecstasy to millions of Italian fans glued to their screens at home.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Wounds of a different sort, the ecstasy of having once felt known.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Lopez was stopped for speeding and during the stop, Lopez was found to be in possession of ecstasy.
    Yadira Sanchez Olson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Only yesterday the four of us took ecstasy in a stranger’s bed.
    Zach Linge, The Atlantic, 31 July 2022
  • The ecstasy pills were shaped like grenades and Transformers.
    John Benson, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The cause of death was found to be a mix of cocaine, ethanol (alcohol) and MDA (a relative of ecstasy).
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Every once in a while a character is seized by the sheer ecstasy of being.
    Edmund White, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • After a brief, shambling start before the band hits its stride, we’re flooded with the ecstasy of how as well as what Conor hears.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The arts are sometimes an excellent way to portray the agonies and ecstasies of disease and suffering.
    Steve Brozak, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Some victims were provided drugs including ketamine, GHB and ecstasy.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024

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