How to Use ravishing in a Sentence

ravishing

adjective
  • She is a ravishing beauty.
  • The scenery on the way up, nonetheless, was ravishing, the plant life thick and exuberant.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Cyrus looked ravishing in a black sweetheart neckline dress by Saint Laurent.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2019
  • White morphs are snowy in winter and brown-grey in summer, while blue morphs stay a ravishing indigo, brown and charcoal mix year-round.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The ravishing look featured billowing sleeves and a sultry keyhole cutout.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The budget on the gowns and sets must have been prodigious, or the below-the-line folks were just crafty, because this is a visually ravishing movie.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Travel Leisure rounded up some of the globe's most ravishing regions — guaranteed to brighten up your day.
    — Beth J. Harpaz, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Such awe asks for the superhuman from singers, especially in this ensemble from their ravishing high notes.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Spicy and ravishing, everything from your charisma to your creative spark will be impossible to deny.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The 24-year-old actress looked ravishing in a custom Louis Vuitton gown, with a daring thigh-high slit to that corset top.
    — James Love, Essence, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Her ravishing vision is told from the point of view of kids left behind in a deserted town where Los Huascas, a cruel gang, governs.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Some of the items, like the Armani suits, are thrilling to see up close because the textiles are so ravishing, their construction so evidently skilled.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • And a ravishing actress in a beaded gown who is made to repeat fragments of one speech — about lying for a living — as the lights are adjusted during a tech rehearsal.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 June 2017
  • Beijing's Parkview Green shopping mall is a towering wedge of steel and glass where China's young and ravishing gather to browse and be seen.
    — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 30 June 2017
  • The ravishing Keisha, 22, has just married the wealthy William Radford, a man 40 years her senior.
    — Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Frances was a ravishing redhead, and it was rumored that Nast was interested in her, but my grandfather succeeded in winning her hand.
    — Liz Goldwyn, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2014
  • The old tricks — the ravishing smile, the glowing Instagram account, the spot-on television performances — fail to enchant.
    — Caitlin Flanagan, The Cut, 14 May 2017
  • Max wanted his freedom to do his own thing, experience the fullness of life, and follow his heart into the arms of the ravishing young Florence Deshon.
    — Daniel Oppenheimer, New Republic, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Marienbad’ to the present moment; its ravishing surfaces, somehow both diamond-hard and evanescent, exist gloriously outside of time.
    — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Lipa looks ravishing in vibrant vintage wear; Harris looks stoic and cool as a poolside waiter, but the funky puppets, with their handlers showing, really steal the show.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 May 2018
  • For example, Denver's mild weather and ravishing outdoors has helped spur a multiyear business and population boom.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Adam Friedland is this era’s Rodney Dangerfield, if Dangerfield trained his sights on politics and had a ravishing head of hair.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Every fetishized element — the glorious house, the tiled pool, Marianne’s Dior outfits and the scrubbiest of vistas — looks ravishing, ready for a close-up, too.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 3 May 2016
  • There are oil paintings, wood engravings, drawings, maps, costumes and photographs, but the show is especially rich in Homer’s ravishing watercolors.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The gold medal pair won the internet’s heart this year with a ravishing dance in the team competition to a dramatic medley from the Moulin Rouge movie, demonstrating serious chemistry.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
  • In the soft pink dusk, as a perfect full moon rose out of the mountains, even the execrable post war concrete buildings below that so despoil the landscape here and throughout this ravishing island somehow managed to fade before nature’s majesty.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 11 July 2017
  • Nicole Duennebier’s paintings imagine undersea life in the manner of 17th-century Dutch still lifes, heaving with ravishing abundance.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
  • In the second act, once peace has been reëstablished, Balanchine provides a suite of courtly dances, the pinnacle of which is a ravishing pas de deux illustrating love’s Platonic ideal.
    — The New Yorker, 23 May 2017
  • This ravishing historical drama became a sensation upon its release in 2020.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • From the Mottahedeh tobacco-leaf chargers to the vintage bohemian glassware to the guavas and kumquats interspersed among the flowers, everything was wild and unexpected and ravishing.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 12 July 2019

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