How to Use bacchanal in a Sentence

bacchanal

1 of 2 noun

• Opel splashed into the round-the-clock bacchanal in the spring of 1977.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• In the thick of the bacchanal was Harbaugh, who was now seen as a conquering hero.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
• The night of the murder, Dmitry throws a bacchanal at a nearby inn.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• This was the night the A’s could have used a raucous celebration on the field, a bacchanal of wearable Gatorade and shaving-cream pies.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
• La Paulée de Meursault is a seven-hour bacchanal held at the Château de Meursault.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 17 Mar. 2016
• That in 2017, when our democracy is up in the air, a rosé-tipsy Bieber is the correct person to kick off the East End summer bacchanal?
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 30 May 2017
• Crisp, golden french fries are perfect for mopping up all of the remaining morsels and drips—this is what a bacchanal should look like.
  — Sara Mae Albert, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Aug. 2019
• Dozens try to vault the fences to join in the bacchanal, a few are banished in handcuffs, others are shuttled to hospitals for treatment.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• The long bacchanal couldn’t last, of course, and by the early to mid-2000s, learned oenologists were detecting the aroma of a rodent in their midst.
  — Patrick Cooke, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• Early on, his OnlyFans page was a bacchanal of foot fetishism.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2019
• Here's the easy way to navigate the program of an academic bacchanal.
  — vanityfair.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• The Pasta Napoletana is a fleshy bacchanal that tastes like someone scraped the top of a Meat Lover’s pizza onto a plate of spaghetti.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• With that, the men and women break into separate groups to gossip about their options and prepare for the night's bacchanal.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2022
• Of course, all rituals require totems—and during this summer bacchanal, mine is a berry bowl.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Stone co-founder Steve Wagner leads this five-course, three-cigar and multiple-beer bacchanal.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• As the eyes of the world, and of the Trump administration, potentially focused on our fair city, the high-holiday bacchanal got out of hand.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• There is the villa in Ostia where Marcello, undone by Steiner’s death, hosts an all-night bacchanal that spills out onto the beach at dawn.
  — A.o. Scott, ELLE Decor, 20 Apr. 2021
• The scene is a slow-motion bacchanal, a tableau of pure glamour and delight, a snapshot of carnal-capitalist utopia.
  — New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• Cass Bird gives the party of the year the silent-era treatment, transforming its already Fitzgeraldian decadence into a black-and-white bacchanal worthy of Buster Keaton.
  — Vogue, 9 May 2019
• The essence of Carnival, after all, is to turn logic on its head: the madness of bacchanal makes no sense whatsoever—and all the exuberant sense in the world.
  — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• This time last year, Miami, Florida would be in the throes of preparation for its yearly Art Basel bacchanal.
  — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2020
• Coincidentally, the woodland clearing where the bacchanal was filmed lies just up the hill from the former camp that stands in for adult Lottie’s compound.
  — Abby Monteil, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• The bacchanal is spiced up this year by the presence of Hollywood gossip column regulars.
  — Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2015
• What had once been a company dinner turned into a bacchanal of diamonds, furs, jewels and gowns.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The scene ends in an anarchic bacchanal for full ensemble, with bass tubas bellowing a portion of Lucifer’s theme.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• The fate of the annual media and politics bacchanal seemed up for debate from the moment Trump, who has attended several times as a guest in the past, was elected.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Hive, 22 Apr. 2017
• The annual retail bacchanal known as the Black Friday to Cyber Monday weekend is upon us again, and many big chains have reason to be fearful.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2019
• After his family decides to sell their Hamptons estate, a man and his friends celebrate the end of their summer playground with a bacchanal.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• The retailing bacchanal will be seen as a test of China’s economic health, amid the ongoing trade war with the US, and the growing fear that the country’s economic growth could fall to levels not seen since the early 1990s.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2019
• Whatever the artist chooses to mount will promptly be Instagrammed to death in an endless summer bacchanal of selfies.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2021

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bacchanal

2 of 2 adjective

• For those flying in, the week promised to be a kind of bacchanal for funding.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 28 Apr. 2021
• Soon thousands of strangers have crowded into the house for a hellish bacchanal straight out of a Fellini film or a Bosch painting.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• For decades now, the trade deadline has served as the festive, frolicking bacchanal to which the Spurs never are invited — or at least choose to skip.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2021
• The post-bacchanal creativity extends to the literary scene in Port of Spain.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• The week started off with a Raf Simons bacchanal complete with Belgian waffles, dark chocolate, and red wine.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2018
• The entire country indulges in a week-long, blossomy bacchanal.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• Here were our five favorite moments from the Miami Beach bacchanal.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2020
• That efficiency will be called on next week during Prime Day, a two-day retail bacchanal Amazon has been putting on since 2015.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 12 July 2019
• The Art Basel bacchanal returns to Miami Beach this winter, packed with enough fairs, dinners, and late-night revels to exhaust even the most ambitious gallery girl.
  — Emily Cronin, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Nov. 2013
• Video bacchanal Guess how many video journalists are employed at the Washington Post?
  — The Hive, 11 Sep. 2017
• Participants say the Mad Max, death-race vibe by day is countered by a Burning Man bacchanal at night, fueled by beer but also lots of theatrics.
  — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
• Prada cleverly conceived a hideaway that was, arguably, the most tranquil respite from the Basel bacchanal outside.
  — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
• The fourth episode, a modern twist on an age-old wartime plot, features an unexpectedly moving bacchanal.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
• The jet set and glitterati descend here year-round for the white-sand beaches, bass-forward nightlife, and five heady days of Carnival bacchanal celebrations in February or March.
  — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2021
• At the end of several of the lectures, the classroom lights dim and silent scenes play out upstage — alcohol poisoning, an unplanned pregnancy, a bacchanal with shirtless dancing.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• J’ouvert morning is considered to be the official start of Carnival bacchanal for St. John Festival 2019.
  — Anquanette Gaspard, Essence, 27 June 2019
• For chefs with a sense of adventure and edge, a visit by Bronson was an excuse for bacchanal, and validation of something edgier than mere culinary skill, presenting restaurants as sites of unimpeachable cool.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• The ceremony had for years been slipping into oblivion thanks to its general attitude of insouciance: In good times, its identity as a bacchanal heavy on substance use but light on substance had been cute fun.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 9 Jan. 2018
• Election Day was a communal, combative, boozy bacchanal.
  — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• In retrospect, Levi sees Zola as a hyper-modernized take on timeless Greek fantasies, which often center on epic journeys marked by adventure, bacchanal, greed, romance, and betrayal.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
• In a more modern era, Elsa Schiaparelli, fashion’s great subverter and Surrealist, delivered a toque hat of bacchanal grapes in 1939.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 July 2018
• For those flying in, the week promised to be a kind of bacchanal for funding.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 28 Apr. 2021
• Soon thousands of strangers have crowded into the house for a hellish bacchanal straight out of a Fellini film or a Bosch painting.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• For decades now, the trade deadline has served as the festive, frolicking bacchanal to which the Spurs never are invited — or at least choose to skip.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2021
• The post-bacchanal creativity extends to the literary scene in Port of Spain.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• The week started off with a Raf Simons bacchanal complete with Belgian waffles, dark chocolate, and red wine.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2018
• The entire country indulges in a week-long, blossomy bacchanal.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• Here were our five favorite moments from the Miami Beach bacchanal.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2020
• That efficiency will be called on next week during Prime Day, a two-day retail bacchanal Amazon has been putting on since 2015.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 12 July 2019
• The Art Basel bacchanal returns to Miami Beach this winter, packed with enough fairs, dinners, and late-night revels to exhaust even the most ambitious gallery girl.
  — Emily Cronin, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Nov. 2013

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