How to Use rapture in a Sentence

rapture

noun

• He listened to the wind in the trees, his eyes closed in rapture.
• We listened with rapture as the orchestra played.
• Who would be taken in the rapture?
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
• Her ghost of a smile should be parsed as beatific rapture.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• That was my first taste of the rapture that is giving away baby things.
  — Elyssa Friedland, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2018
• One spectator tilts his head upward in a state of pure rapture.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• To hear that in a lullaby, to hear it in anger or rapture, is an aha moment.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• Months later, the memory of his rapture was still enough to move his wife to tears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Hunter wants you on the fence — with rapture on one side and boring old wage labor on the other.
  — Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023
• Dylan Mulvaney came dressed and ready for the rapture.
  — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
• If this is a rapture, the women wonder, why have the men been taken instead of them?
  — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• The essence of that scene is victory and rapture and feeling good about yourself.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 June 2023
• But it was built to stand until the Rapture, and maybe a little while beyond.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• But the rapture makes for a good headline, and many large news outlets take the bait and report the claim straight up.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2018
• This is a show about the rapture of play, family lore, and bouncing tennis balls.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2020
• Anyone working in health care still enjoys the rapture of action.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2020
• These six books speak to the complexity of having siblings, in all its rapture and mess.
  — Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2022
• Was there a rapture in the AJLT universe?
  — Zach Schiffman, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
• Like the idea of the Rapture — punishment for just being alive and a person.
  — Justin Caffier, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
• The first novel begins with the rapture of all true Christians from the earth and the chaos that follows.
  — Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
• The camera in this moment catches the look of rapture on the face of Sanders’s Richard.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• If the rapture is indeed imminent, expect the raver pop-rock princess to party all the way to the end of the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• There was, though, just enough rapture and climax to indicate that something out there just beyond your grasp.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2019
• Half of women said they would be transported to heaven in the event of the rapture, while 42% of men said the same.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
• Parts of the book evince an excitement for the unknown, a thrill not unlike the rapture of Febos’s past.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2021
• What are faith leaders saying about the 2025 Rapture?
  — Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Sep. 2025
• As noted by the Times reporters in Asia, there hasn’t been a Rapture there either.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
• The rapture refers to the end of times in some Christian denominations.
  — Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
• At its best, this big-screen version of the fin de siècle TV series evokes the rapture of the shallows.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 May 2017
• What To Know Predictions of a rapture are nothing new.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025