ravish
verb (used with object)
to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
are ravishing
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present progressiveof ravish.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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These encounters with artists — Powell, Josephine Baker, Harriet Beecher Stowe and beyond — are ravishing and rigorous, but they are interrupted with fretting and self-admonishment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Hughes’s paintings are ravishing merely as color-blending exercises, but their layered depths have poignant human significance.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
Her “Landscape Portraits,” for instance, are ravishing, the latest in a series of photograms made by placing thin sheets of wood veneer on photo-sensitive paper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
Polidori’s images, some of which stand six feet high, are ravishing meditations on the concepts of transience and decay, the cracked and peeling walls revealing layers of history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2016
"You are ravishing this evening," he said, reaching for her card.
From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward
