How to Use cacophony in a Sentence

cacophony

noun

• The sounds of shouting added to the cacophony on the streets.
• Amid the herd of elephants in the room, drowned out by the cacophony from all the other trumpeting, the national debt pachyderm lurks.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The faces and smiles traverse the halls bringing with them a cacophony, punctuated by laughter and outbursts galore.
  — Michael Heim, al, 19 June 2020
• Even a world-class orchestra will produce a cacophony if its strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion sections don’t play in harmony.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 16 Sep. 2020
• This was most apparent during the crowd sound clip, where a cacophony of voices was quieted to something more akin to a library conversation.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 2 Sep. 2020
• Israel Finkelstein maneuvered his car into a narrow spot reserved for excavators as a cacophony of horns blared behind him.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 22 June 2020
• By the end of a workout, when Nacua trots in front of bleachers awash in fans wearing No. 17 jerseys, the cacophony becomes a sustained crescendo.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• Of all the unknowns entering this season, maybe the most intriguing is how emptying a stadium and muting a crowd will affect teams accustomed to cacophony.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• But beneath the cacophony of prints and colors and her signature asymmetrical haircut, Allee struggled to accept her own queerness.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• The overall effect is of cacophony: a vast, loud, bright, fractured, narcissistic ecosystem that leaves us little room for thoughtful deliberation.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, Wired, 18 Aug. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024