How to Use bacchanalia in a Sentence

bacchanalia

noun

• APB isn’t a free-for-all bacchanalia of shots fired and car crashes.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 18 June 2009
• Spent a day last week at the bacchanalia of imagination that is San Diego Comic-Con.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
• It was made by Schutz standing inside the thing, forming and adding clay, melding this wild bacchanalia.
  — Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
• Yes, music festivals are back in full swing, here to sate all your bacchanalia needs.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 27 May 2021
• But for many in Sturgis, a city of about 7,000, the brimming bars and bacchanalia will not be welcome during a pandemic.
  — Stephen Groves, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020
• An utter free-for-all of alien-cyborg-A.I. bacchanalia?
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2011
• His would-be TV slate is a parade of ambition and bacchanalia, of towers and gorgeous women.
  — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 6 Apr. 2017
• But before the basketball bacchanalia begins, the bracket needs to be set.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2022
• Sun, soca, and lots of rum fuels the weeklong bacchanalia that encourages a kind of joy that’s contagious.
  — Kristin Braswell, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2022
• Their bacchanalia of a playoff series begins with Game 1 tonight.
  — Matt Murray, WSJ, 14 May 2018
• That includes a more intimate, black-tie style gala (both Friday nights) and the bacchanalia that draws thousands (Saturdays).
  — Steve Byrne, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• The bacchanalia started with a silver bowl of (optional) Jaegermeister shots for guests, whose seats awaited behind tables pre-littered with stale French fries and wine stains.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2023
• But the burgers from Zack Fernandes, who runs the operation, are a reminder that a burger doesn’t have to be an excessive, beefy bacchanalia to be good.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• One of Tape One would start slow and mellow — guest-arrival music — then build in tempo and intensity until somewhere around Tape Three the bacchanalia soundtrack kicked in.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018
• The boom times leading up to the 2008 market crash created a bacchanalia of Nerf darts, electric scooters, free-flowing booze, and bottomless snack bins to overwhelm even the most discerning man-child.
  — Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017
• While Roth presided over bacchanalia in the wings, Mr. Van Halen preferred a more private kind of debauchery, retiring alone to his hotel room to snort cocaine, drink vodka and write songs on his guitar.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• And the move to ban outside alcohol has also been credited with taming the debauchery of the infield, as the jockey club has since emphasized music over bacchanalia.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
• The memoir instead became a book of general wisdom, drawn from his fourteen years of sobriety and the regret-laden bacchanalia that preceded them.
  — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• The party is legendary—a multi-day bacchanalia drawing revelers from all over Iceland and beyond.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• The waves of disturbing imagery and hellish bacchanalia earn mother! its exclamation point and leave the viewer drowning in symbolism.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
• Some billionaires find Vegas irresistible for its bacchanalia, but Steyer was drinking seltzer with cranberry juice, light on the juice.
  — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Amid the bacchanalia, Tiffany was preparing his masterstroke.
  — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
• At night, the citizens of the quaint community of Victory throw raucous, drunken shindigs that are always one lampshade-hat away from going full suburban bacchanalia.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
• As Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood bacchanalia prepares to make its big debut, its contenders are slowly coming into focus.
  — Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
• For a half century, musicians and fans from around the cultural spectrum have descended on the Crescent City to pile onto more than a dozen stages for multiple days of unfettered musical bacchanalia.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
• Except for the politicians and the artists, the participants in that extended bacchanalia are forgotten today, and De Courcy is generally unsuccessful in bringing them back to life.
  — Reagan Upshaw, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• For the last 40 years, whenever a Republican is president, conservatives in Congress have happily embarked on a bacchanalia of tax cuts and hikes on defense spending.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
• The show's second season, which began January 14, opens with Holmes, despite his lingering Christian guilt, enjoying a veritable bacchanalia of booze and women at a nightclub called the Hole with some new comedy buddies.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 17 Jan. 2018
• In short, this week brought another bacchanalia of forward guidance from our most important economic policy makers.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• Another theory suggested that playing drums in the streets in the night — especially during the bacchanalia of Carnival season, when drum groups perform most intensely — is too time-consuming and dangerous for women, who should instead stay home.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024