How to Use carouse in a Sentence

carouse

verb
  • My brother and his friends went out carousing last night.
  • The two would carouse in Singapore off-and-on again for the next 15 years as Gilbeau worked his way up the Navy ladder.
    Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • But a night carousing around the city is just as seductive, and in different ways.
    Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017
  • Over the years they have been pictured carousing together in party spots in London and around the world.
    Max Foster, CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
  • He's surrounded by his co-workers, whooping drunks who carouse and complain about their back-breaking, dirty trade, all in service of The Man.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Of course, many parents might heave a sigh of relief that their kids aren’t out carousing, and some side-effects, like a drop in teen pregnancies, are positive.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2017
  • Another man, Bill Holmes, says his group was carousing in Fairbanks the night of Hartman's death and was responsible.
    Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Pushkin, however, focused on a single scene, in which a group of youngsters carouse in a spontaneous street party and toast a deceased friend.
    The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Smith and his friend left the club shortly after 2 a.m. and were carousing outside when a group of people, including the suspects, confronted them.
    David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Kicking back here usually means a full night of Korean BBQ and bar-hopping before carousing at an all-night karaoke joint.
    Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • For a hamlet named after the eternal banquet hall where the slain warriors of Norse mythology caroused, Valhalla is low on drama.
    Julie Lasky, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Khan may have spent his earlier years carousing with supermodels under the paparazzi glare of London’s nightclubs, but the debonair playboy has had to grow up.
    Time, 28 June 2018
  • Hanging out with these carefree kids—riding in cars with them, eating fast food with them, carousing at the moontower with them, watching the sun come up with them—is pretty close to hanging out with your own friends.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 10 May 2020
  • Among them are top officers found to have been carousing at strip clubs, swinging with multiple partners and frequenting prostitutes in Asia.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Many of the legions who dressed fantastically, scantily, or both treated the festival as, well, a festival—a reason to carouse.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022
  • For four hours each morning, Kokeubai says he and his fellow inmates were forced to watch videos of Xi carousing with dignitaries and overseeing military exercises.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Rumors of his after-hours carousing spread throughout town, culminating in a now-infamous trip to a celebrity pro-am golf tournament on the Florida Gulf Coast.
    Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 25 July 2017
  • Old Hollywood movie stars could easily be imagined carousing around the elegant swimming pool.
    Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The document, which includes details from interviews with six women, offers a picture of Hill carousing during a party at a bar in the early morning hours of March 15, shortly after this year's legislative session came to a close.
    Bryan Slodysko, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • Dorchak and his childhood pal, now a California resident, had seen the sights and caroused without care on Friday, Saturday and Sunday until nightfall when the country music concert began.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The effect is rather like stumbling across the Serpent Column late at night after carousing in Istanbul’s 21st-century nightclubs: a melancholic sense of historical vertigo.
    Lawrence Osborne, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Commuting, camping, conveying, cruising, carousing: With such a car, everyone feels ready for everything.
    Pete Lyons, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
  • There’s also the matter of political conventions, the events that bring together thousands of party members for days of unity, rallying and carousing to be capped off with iconic images of balloons dropping on giddy delegates.
    Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Many of those carousing belong to Belarus’s sprouting technology industry — young, savvy and forward-looking designers, bookish and shy engineers, and many others who aspire to belong.
    Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Artists were photographed wearing banker suits and smoking Montecristos, strove to be featured in ads for Absolut Vodka, caroused with real estate magnates and deep-pocketed promoters with unplaceable accents.
    Luc Sante, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Children carouse their neighborhoods demanding sugary treats.
    Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
  • At a postgame victory celebration, where exuberant and drunken teens carouse at Kevin’s house, a serious event occurs that traumatizes Peter’s 15-year-old daughter Maya — and polarizes Beartown’s inhabitants.
    Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • My brother and his friends went out carousing last night.
  • The two would carouse in Singapore off-and-on again for the next 15 years as Gilbeau worked his way up the Navy ladder.
    Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • But a night carousing around the city is just as seductive, and in different ways.
    Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017

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