How to Use rhapsodic in a Sentence

rhapsodic

adjective
  • All this made Sedaris rhapsodic about words and weird meanings.
    — Caroline Leavitt, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • The most rhapsodic prose is reserved for the trees themselves.
    — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
  • Fallon and guest Paul Rudd wax rhapsodic about tiny ski caps.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Because there’s a kind of rhapsodic freedom when they are stranded.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Jan. 2022
  • And all eight scores bloom in the last act with a surge of lyrical, rhapsodic revelation.
    — Tim Greiving, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The text is rhapsodic, romantic even.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • That also goes for one-night stands and moody outbursts and rhapsodic pledges of eternal affection.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2022
  • The rhapsodic lyricism and dry gallows humor, the speed and nimbleness of the tonal shifts, drew me in to these books.
    — Francine Prose, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Sasse grew positively rhapsodic when the talk turned to chocolate.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The first movement has lyrical legato playing, kind of rhapsodic.
    — Paul Freeman, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2017
  • Response has been rhapsodic, not just from critics but audiences.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The process gives the effect of a living canvas, though audiences have been less rhapsodic about the result this time around.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • All the elements gathered into a rhapsodic yet melancholy dance melody.
    — Jeff Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • His Fifth is a cogent affair, not as expansive as some, but with its own rhapsodic poetry.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Joel Link’s stylishly rhapsodic playing of the concerto-like first violin part was the icing on the cake.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
  • The rhapsodic rapport Tillmans has with his subjects gives his work a tenderness that seems almost sacred.
    — Vulture, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In the rhapsodic coda, Potter's phrases soared over a swirl of instrumental sound.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
  • These are eaters who wax rhapsodic when reminiscing about the unctuous pleasure and salty pop of caviar washed down by an icy, astringent vodka.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Lately, Coll has found a distinctive voice—a kind of romantic neo-modernism, abrasive and rhapsodic by turns.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In late 2022, most of those hours were taken up with Scott’s rhapsodic vision of the Copilot era.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • On his 57th birthday, Colorado’s rhapsodic football coach was, as usual, flanked by in-house cameras.
    — Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
  • In those rhapsodic locales to our north whence so many of us have hailed, summertime is the giddy season that redeems the restive hibernation of winter.
    — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • The escalating, rhapsodic song unleashed midway through the set transformed the venue into a raucous rock cathedral.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The family is called Chloranthaceae, and paleobotanists like to wax rhapsodic about it.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023
  • But the most sheerly entertaining villain proves to be Kane, who at one point delivers a rhapsodic, metaphor-laden monologue about the glories of lemon meringue pie.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Debbie’s departure comes as a slant blessing to the reader, too, who has had to countenance the book’s many rhapsodic statements about the sisters’ dynamic.
    — Zoe Hu, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The indie sensation has earned more than $90 million at the box office so far and was met with a critical response that can only be described as rhapsodic.
    — Amy Nicholson, Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Hopefully, the Sox will have something to celebrate truly worthy of Wednesday’s rhapsodic tone very soon.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Below, the Cali native and current Long Islander waxes rhapsodic on her latest venture.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2018
  • Why Bruno Mars is a musical unicorn To wax rhapsodic about Mars as an executor of charm is commonplace.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026

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