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Example sentences for "rave"

Lexicographically close words:
ravaged; ravager; ravagers; ravages; ravaging; raved; ravel; raveled; ravelin; raveling
  1. It is an uncouth shrine which covers the poet's remains, but it ranks high among those of its class from more sincere motives than those which usually induce one to rave over more pompous and more splendid charms.

  2. Hark ye, sirrah;-- why rave you thus in this poor mortal?

  3. Rave on: she lies too deep to answer; stranger voices than thine she hears:--bubbles are bursting round her.

  4. But he would not be hushed, and struggled to get down as if indeed he would go mad unless he might get to the thing and rave at it.

  5. Men have ceased to rave over the dark-eyed syren and now behold her as a being of a secondary order.

  6. His court rave about Tories, which you know comes with a singular grace from them, as the Duke never preferred any.

  7. Nay, it was but t'other day that we were transported to hear Churchill rave in numbers less chastised than Dryden's, but still in numbers like Dryden's.

  8. So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC, The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form!

  9. He may rave another twelve hours, and it will be useless.

  10. It is a great piece of luck that she did not wail and rave and let out the whole story before the doctor and the maids.

  11. I've heard him curse the perversity of little things, and rave at what he called the 'malice of the north wind.

  12. The critics don't agree with you; they rave over her.

  13. But again some god or other and no choice of my own has made me rave with this Bacchic frenzy.

  14. How modest fashion is to hide all the uglinesses she creates, and what fools men are to rave about a piece of leather!

  15. It is all right enough for musicians to rave over the sweetness of a piece of catgut, but the world wants to hear the whole tune, and what we as artists know to be good quality is comical affectation on their part.

  16. I simply thought it was the fashion to rave about it, and I was sick of the very sound of its name before I came.

  17. To rave over it is like going to church--it is the proper thing to do.

  18. Can one rave over Vesuvius on an empty stomach, or get all the beauty out of Sorrento with a backache?

  19. I find that I cannot rave over a pink and white china shepherdess when I have worshipped the Venus of Milo.

  20. Excuse me if I am frank, Miss Ansell, but there are many people among us who rave over Italian antiquities, but can see nothing poetical in old Judaism.

  21. I know all her girls used to rave over her and throw her in the faces of girls with ugly teachers.

  22. All rave around, and wailings fill the hall.

  23. Rave on, and thunder in thy wonted strain, And brand me coward, thou whose hands can slay Such Trojan hosts, whose trophies grace the plain.

  24. I'd give anything to have the guys rave over me like they did over you and your playing.

  25. At any rate, the botanists rave about Roan Mountain, and spend weeks at a time on it.

  26. Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed.

  27. But haughtily as she turns up her little nose--by the way it's a nose to rave over--there is evidently something wrong about her.

  28. True, they told a tale of sickness; but have we any reason to be ashamed, if we are attacked by fever and rave in delirious fancies?

  29. Let people rave about Lady Studleigh, let her be as beautiful as she would, she could not surpass Doris.

  30. Let poets and artists rave of beauty--let the dead girl answer, "What had beauty done for her?

  31. Thus on they rave With uproar shrill and ominous moan.

  32. I could rave on by the hour if you would listen to me.

  33. He then went on to rave about the Scottish wars, speaking of places and people I had never before heard of.

  34. Critics may rave if they like against the mutilation of Goethe's masterpiece; the opera is sure to attract, for it is a fresh, interesting work, with a copious flow of melody and lovely instrumentation.

  35. Mamma insists that her hair is red, but it is just the color the Ascotts rave over.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anger; assault; attack; babble; batter; bellow; bluff; bluster; boil; bounce; brag; brutalize; bubble; bully; burn; butcher; chafe; declaim; destroy; dote; drivel; effervesce; explode; flip; fret; fume; gush; hammer; harangue; intimidate; loot; maul; mouth; mug; object; orate; party; pillage; rage; ramble; ramp; rampage; rant; rape; rave; rhapsody; riot; roar; ruin; sack; savage; seethe; simmer; sizzle; slang; slaughter; slaver; slobber; smoke; smolder; splutter; spout; sputter; stew; storm; swagger; tear; terrorize; vapor; violate; wander; wreck