How to Use cacophony in a Sentence

cacophony

noun

• The sounds of shouting added to the cacophony on the streets.
• For much of the day, the site of the 2023 men’s basketball Final Four was a cacophony of sounds and sights.
  — Scott Bordow, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
• But out of the cacophony needs to come a core of consensus.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• As the pages turn, the sky lightens and more birds join in until the air rings with an avian cacophony.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• The saying her name was the creation of that cacophony of sound.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the world is loud, and singling out the tune of one bird or whale from the cacophony is difficult.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The video opens with a cacophony of clock chimes, church bells, loud ticking.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Eat: Loud, crunchy foods to drown out the cacophony of voices.
  — Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
• Their unified song takes over from the cacophony of a conscious brain, and the patient is out.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Of course, there's also the pull back to the stressful cacophony of demands.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
• The cacophony of the city had died down and the insurance building next to the memorial had gone dark.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• When the machines came, the reindeer left, spooked by the cacophony of construction and the whoosh of spinning blades.
  — Jesper Starn, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2022
• Sounds from the scene are heard over the line: a cacophony of voices, a man demanding help with tending to the wound of one of the victims.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Amidst the cacophony, Wanda freaks out and her magic starts to choke all the people around her.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• The acoustics of the room amplify the breathy cacophony blowing from the four saxes on stage.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The effect is a cacophony of sounds that can sound far away or near, above or below.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• The front tires leave the pavement and a cacophony of sand and rock collisions begins to echo through the cabin.
  — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
• Filing past vacant chairs on the baseline, they were startled by a cacophony from above and to the right.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2021
• Their dialects, though not quite the same, will again fill the forest with a cacophony of parrot calls.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
• Baby sea turtles sprint across the beach, and the the forest echoes with the cacophony of exotic birds.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• The cacophony of Shahid’s cries and the cicada drone almost felled me.
  — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 8 Feb. 2018
• Their tight seal is secure enough to dull the cacophonies of a jackhammer on the street or a chainsaw in the backyard.
  — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
• Shakir was just taking in the hundreds of men and the cacophony of voices when Fuqua gave that command.
  — Stuart Miller, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
• And maybe, just maybe, that art will live on long enough to see the fruit of its promise: a cacophony of diverse voices on stage and screen.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
• Through the rapturous cacophony, the anthem could be made out here and there.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• The fans know them by heart, sing in unison and generate a cacophony of noise.
  — Coy Wire and Vivien Jones, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• After the final out, a cacophony of honking horns filled the air.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• The thermometer rushes up and down, coats come on and off, there’s a cacophony of birdsong and so much mud.
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2018
• With the mic in his hand — and a cacophony of flutes blaring over a pure ‘80s melody — any walls that might’ve been up between them came tumbling down.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Apr 2024