How to Use cacophony in a Sentence

cacophony

noun

• The sounds of shouting added to the cacophony on the streets.
• The music is cacophony for me and now my hearing fluctuates.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The cacophony of Ho Chi Minh is both life-affirming and draining.
  — Richard Quest, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
• More Stories The montage is a cacophony of elements in search of a point—a finale that has nothing to say.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2019
• At every moment, neurons whisper, shout, sputter and sing, filling the brain with a dizzying cacophony of voices.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2019
• The earliest days of the consumer internet were soundtracked by a cacophony of digital hisses and beeps.
  — Mike Murphy, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
• What interests him is the cacophony of politics—the struggle of one party, or one candidate, to crush another.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• Public reaction to the new MoMA will no doubt combine a bit of polyphony with some cacophony.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
• The group acts as a landing pad for those making the leap, offering the Yotzim everything from a place to sleep to handheld tours through the cacophony of a shopping mall.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• The tent has three thin mattresses, on which two children are fast asleep, despite the cacophony created by 20 toddlers who are running around under the watchful eye of two caregivers.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• Such experts would balance out the cacophony of lobbyists trying to frame how lawmakers understand technology.
  — Marietje Schaake, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• In the midst of this cacophony, ASMR has set up its quiet stalls.
  — Laurence Scott, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• 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
• As customers stroll down the aisles, they are met with a cacophony of choices.
  — Joel Goldstein, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
• At the intersection, Taggart was met by a cacophony of screams, the growl of the diesel engine and the blaring of the SUV’s horn.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024