How to Use ecstasy in a Sentence

ecstasy

noun
  • His performance sent the audience into ecstasies.
  • Back on the ground, ecstasy fills you.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Just in time for the ecstasy—and the skin agony—of peak ski season.
    — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Horror comes through the body, as does love, as does ecstasy.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Both teams were in tears at the end, some from ecstasy, some from despair.
    — Chris Scott, CNN, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The girl told police that Thomas gave her ecstasy pills.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • There can be an ecstasy in work—not just the taste of bread, but also the odor of roses.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • On the other side of the room, a therapy dog swung its tail in ecstasy.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2021
  • But these are the stories of my fear, my neuroses, my ecstasy and my journey.
    — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • That was the theater of ecstasy that would liberate him from the body.
    — Mark Schilling, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Customers line up hours before the shop opens and slurp their noodles and broth in silent ecstasy.
    — Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Only yesterday the four of us took ecstasy in a stranger’s bed.
    — Zach Linge, The Atlantic, 31 July 2022
  • Seyfried channels the ecstasy of their union with joyful movements, a smile on her face.
    — Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
  • These two sequences are the ecstasy and the agony of Batfleck.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Wounds of a different sort, the ecstasy of having once felt known.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Every once in a while a character is seized by the sheer ecstasy of being.
    — Edmund White, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The ecstasies of classical music are supposed to be, well, clean.
    — David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Anisimova watched it all from a few feet away, the agony and ecstasy of a cruel game in stark relief.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • The ecstasy pills were shaped like grenades and Transformers.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • For Miyamoto, the film had to mirror the agony and ecstasy of playing a video game.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And at that precise moment, the pure joy in his eyes embodied the whole world’s ecstasy.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 19 June 2018
  • While arguing a case in court, Steel sometimes feels a kind of moral ecstasy.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The ecstasy at the final whistle.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • 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
  • The super-delicate crunch of the puffy taco results in the same ecstasy — and the same crumbles.
    — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The agony of the cross has been replaced by the ecstasy of the Resurrection.
    — Morin Bishop, Woman's Day, 22 Mar. 2019

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