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Meanings of carousing in English
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
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Examples for "bacchanal"
Examples for "bacchanal"
1
This is the immemorial bacchanal lurching through the kaleidoscope of the centuries.
2
The individual I had seen at Baden,-thegamester, the bacchanal, the debauchee!
3
His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal.
4
It's usually a deeply technical bacchanal, but this year was not.
5
At the height of the bacchanal I emptied the purse into a bottle.
1
Bressant looked up and recognized the rustic bacchanalian for the first time.
2
But my social recollections of Baltimore are by no means exclusively bacchanalian.
3
Two bacchanalian pictures on the wall suddenly had yawning wounds in their centre.
4
And up starts a wild, dissolute, bacchanalian glee for seven voices.
5
It was really a bacchanalian blowout, and we're all feeling the effects of it.
1
The populace drifted here, into complete indifference, there, into orgiastic forms of worship.
2
Servants, stationed throughout this orgiastic celebration-ofcourse there would be.
3
When the Minotaur appears in the studio, the hitherto relaxed mood becomes fiercely orgiastic.
4
And he had intermittently dozed during the progress of the demonstration and its orgiastic sequel.
5
The kind of orgiastic existences that Roma was famous for in Nero's time, I mean.
1
A bacchic emulation reigned, which threatened to end in scenes bordering upon a debauch.
2
The Syrian damsels, who appeared at first in the bacchic dance, mingled now with the guests.
3
Is the bike transforming this staid old world into one wild bacchic orgy or phallic revel?
4
Woman has filled the world with war's alarms, and the bacchic revel has ended in the brawl.
5
It is a liquor worthy to be sung at Teos and at the Temple by the princes of bacchic poets, Anacreon and Chaulieu.
Usage of carousing in English
1
Very confident, the guard very negligent, the men carousing in the houses.
2
The last day of the payment is, invariably, one of general carousing.
3
I guessed he was feeling the aftereffects of our night's carousing too.
4
Instead of sitting here carousing, we ought to go solemnly to bed.
5
Wherever Brederode was, there, it was probable, would be much severe carousing.
6
Such a medley of drinking, gambling, and carousing followed, as defies description.
7
Chief Durand thinks it was kids who were out drinking and carousing.
8
Within, several men were carousing-dark-haired ,swarthyfellows, who seemed to be fishermen.
9
You yourself saw me carousing the night of my own father's death!
10
Outside I could still hear the soldiers carousing on the grounds.
11
She wasn't used to carousing all night and working all day.
12
There began to be carousing in the second-class compartment next ahead of us.
13
Wonderfully liberating for a UCC student carousing long after the buses stopped running.
14
When they entered they were deafened with the noise of carousing and merrymaking.
15
He was fifty-four years old, and well known for carousing with young women.
16
The carousing gang downstairs was more than ever distasteful to me.
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