How to Use ravish in a Sentence

ravish

verb
  • Go around and ravish each other, lovers.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • First of all, each and every one of the 90 rooms has ravishing views.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Take for instance the ravishing red cape top that swung on the matching carpet.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 8 Feb. 2025
  • No scandalous maidens being ravished by rogues here—we’re talking about ideas, please.
    — Hazlitt, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Jupiter ravished Leda as a swan and carried off Ganymede as an eagle.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • The country superstar looked ravishing in red in a flowing gown with a cut-out, sequined bodice.
    — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Knight was out there looking ravishing in a wedding dress, and not a single longing look from Palmer?
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Her lithe body is covered in ravishing dots of color that could be her skin, a high-end leotard or a life-threatening rash.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Her music, though, is the most sublime in an opera that remains consistently ravishing for its full three hours.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • And not least through its ravishing costumes, which span everything from her most iconic stage outfits to her bedroom dressing gowns.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The actress and model made a grand red carpet entrance in a ravishing rose colored dress from Elie Saab.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Some destinations boast clear waters and black sands while others are tucked behind thick forests with ravishing cliffsides.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The 33-year-old actress posed in a series of looks—all of which were truly ravishing, including one free-the-nipple snap.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The fresh, vegetable-forward menu changes daily, but many of the ravishing desserts tend to stay, including a signature spiced rum chocolate cake.
    — Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The fresh, vegetable-forward menu changes daily, but many of the ravishing desserts tend to stick around, including the signature spiced rum chocolate cake.
    — Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Your reward, in lieu of the usual dainty comfort, is a state of ravishing confusion about the physical world and how its pieces fit together.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Bleating goats, barking dogs, and buck-buck-bucking chickens only add to the land’s rustic charm and ravishing natural beauty.
    — Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
  • If nothing else, the film has a ravishing beauty about it, starting with its stars, Tony Leung and Tang Wei.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Selena Gomez is ravishing in red at the Cannes Film Festival!
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • The star wowed red carpet onlookers in this ravishing and revealing shredded gown from Christian Dior.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Pinned to the wall are what look like photographs of old statues — all these realms of artifice, illusion, reality, a world ravished in lunar beauty.
    — Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever, Vulture, 11 May 2023
  • Anne Hathaway made a ravishing appearance at the 2023 Met Gala.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
  • My clients’ ravishing daughters started wearing them as everyday dresses or for going to parties, off-the-shoulder and belted, with flat sandals or high heels or boots.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 June 2019
  • But each night, Hero’s stories before bedtime prove so entrancing that Manfred fails to go through with any seducing, let alone ravishing.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Returning to the Bay Area in this ravishing way after more than 30 years is a reminder that this Phantom hasn’t yet lost its bite.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
  • However, her origin myth, in which she was hatched from an egg laid by her mother, Leda, who had been ravished by Zeus in the guise of a swan, is plainly invention.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The energy that his camera locates is beyond the glamour of the stage and the excesses of the band and their crew, beyond the ravishing purple stage lights and the backstage boredom.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Boasting more than 600 wild, medicinal and aromatic plant species, the island is clothed in a ravishing violet coat of lavender.
    — James Rampton, theweek, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Akhnaten is revealed in episodes of his life that are not fleshed out but presented as ritual, including the ravishing love duet with his wife, Nefertiti.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The Van Gogh Museum shines a light on the ravishing work of an artist who died tragically in 2019.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Mar. 2024

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