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Valentino Haute Couture also provided Tessa Thompson with a definitive go-big-or-go-home dress in ravishing chartreuse. — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, "10 Best Dressed: Week of December 3, 2018," 3 Dec. 2018 Little served only three months in jail after being convicted of assault with the intent to ravish-rape for the crime in December 1976. — Kyle Swenson, The Seattle Times, "Elderly prisoner claims he’s America’s deadliest serial killer with 90 victims. Police believe him.," 20 Nov. 2018 On a lightning visit to Venice almost two decades ago, I was swept into the magic of the Hotel Gritti Palace, a 14th-century Venetian Gothic palazzo converted, back in the 1940s, into a ravishing small hotel. — Jean Bond Rafferty, Town & Country, "Dispatches from the Renaissance," 17 Dec. 2012 Fans who tune in to be ravished by the show’s psychedelia and then dissect it on Reddit will be satisfied, and skeptics who see Hawley as a mascot for the excesses of peak TV may still do so. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Does Legion Have a Soul?," 4 Apr. 2018 Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world’s poorest before the conflict began. — Washington Post, "War leaves Yemen’s Aden hollowed-out shadow of former self," 14 June 2018 Violence, famine and disease have ravished the country of some 28 million, which was already the Arab world's poorest before the conflict began. — Fox News, "War leaves Yemen's Aden hollowed-out shadow of former self," 14 June 2018 Lucy Crowe brought ravishing brilliance to the peri. — Mark Swed, latimes.com, "'Das Paradies': A giant globular tear as ticket to heaven," 4 June 2018 Consider the centuries of ravishing Catholic artworks: medieval altarpieces, Raphael Madonnas, the stained glass at Chartres. — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, "The Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ Show Is Worth the Pilgrimage," 10 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ravish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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