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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rhapsodize .
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Examples
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It is really a matter of judgment whether one feels that William Blake's lyric but loony verses "rhapsodized" (to use ecstatic speech or writing) over heavy industry; Chesterton and I both felt that his meaning was obscure.
The Chestertons Dale, Alzina Stone 1983
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Let's say you frequently rhapsodized about the sexual availability of these adolescent prostitutes, describing one brothel ashaving the atmosphere of "a high school slumber party" at which "banging the girls is easy and guaranteed."
Angus Johnston: Professor Behind Thai Sex Tourism Site Digs Himself Deeper Angus Johnston 2010
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"Luck is much too poor to improve his well-being," he rhapsodized about the Swiss peasant.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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"Luck is much too poor to improve his well-being," he rhapsodized about the Swiss peasant.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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"Luck is much too poor to improve his well-being," he rhapsodized about the Swiss peasant.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, rhapsodized about turtle soup with a poem, whose opening lines proclaimed:
Matthew Jacob: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio and Turtle Soup? Matthew Jacob 2011
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High-score phobics rhapsodized about the bloody-nose days of Dick Butkus and Ray Nitschke.
No Offense to Great Defense Jason Gay 2012
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At the table, Mr. Joerg rhapsodized about the beauty of whatever item a customer picked up.
A Label With Swing to Spare Tad Hendrickson 2011
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In the late 1950s, when Provence was still an uncharted destination, writer Lawrence Durrell rhapsodized about an enchanted landscape — vines that were "glittering silver-green bundles, or softly powdered by the gold dust of the summers," set against a "taut wind-haunted blue sky," wh ere the "great wines of the south sleep softly on the French earth."
Coasting High in Provence Lanie Goodman 2011
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Carl Bakal in “This Very Day a Gun May Kill you!” rhapsodized about deaths due to shooting receding to the vanishing point as all the guns were rounded up.
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