How to Use raver in a Sentence
raver
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Ibiza Town, Ibiza Yes, Ibiza is the go-to spot for ravers and full-moon partiers.
—Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2019
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The ravers were told not to bring firearms or sharp objects onto the festival grounds.
—Susannah George, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
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Return to menu For ravers, clubbers and thrill seekers, there’s no place like Echostage in the District — or in the country.
—Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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Scene fashion is almost emo, too, that kind of mixes with ravers.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
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Initially, some of the ravers didn’t notice the sound of the explosions over the thumping music.
—Susannah George, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
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Yet the threat to Griessmuehle touched a nerve, uniting ravers and politicians behind a #saveourspaces hashtag.
—The Economist, 1 Feb. 2020
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The story features an audio track of the real life memories of a raver.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
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Turns out, Offset doesn’t need a glow stick, the raver’s trademark accessory, to stand out.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2019
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But what retinol ravers sometimes skim over is that during the first few weeks of use, your face might be red, peeling, and extremely dried out.
—Jessica Cruel, SELF, 21 Feb. 2018
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Lots of ravers under 30, shifting from the casual to the committed as day turns to morning.
—Ben Ratliff, New York Times, 31 May 2016
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Before the war, Kyiv’s club district was a magnet for revelers and ravers from across Europe.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
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But no matter how strong that bond, no two sweaty ravers are having the exact same experience.
—Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
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When day broke on Sunday, as some ravers came down from their highs and others caught up on the tragic events of the prior night, their communal spirit raged on.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
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Everybody stays inside their cars, no alcohol is sold, and instead of cheering when the beat drops, ravers honk their car horns and flash their lights.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2020
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My own raver group chats have been similarly convinced that these aren’t random events.
—Brock Colyar, Curbed, 25 Aug. 2023
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While a few were ex-ravers, the majority were simply searching for something to do between breakfast and nap time.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
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Waight Keller has no intention of serving up ravers or, god forbid, Helmut Newton.
—Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 5 Mar. 2018
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Many of its founders and early innovators are still active on the scene, sharing their music and wisdom with the next generation of ravers and DJs.
—Ana Monroy Yglesias, Billboard, 26 May 2023
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The apparently lifeless body of one female raver, Germany’s Shani Louk, was driven back ...
—Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
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The accompany video, featuring a roomful of ravers in their best Y2K redux fits, was shot in Montreal.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2024
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The look might be described as Aztec raver — a splash of vibrant color, childlike sensibility and sportiness.
—Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
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With Demonia’s glossy patent leather flatform boots, Gaga revisited a style familiar to goth kids and ravers everywhere while putting her own stamp on the look.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 31 May 2019
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Wanting to dress like a raver has little to do with being a raver—and that’s a mentality that will be hard for older Millennials, Gen Xers, and Boomers to understand.
—Steff Yotka, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2021
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However, the ravers who Alison Gopnik mentions use street drugs of unknown origin or dose.
—WSJ, 5 May 2019
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But Bluetooth's new features stand to benefit more than just polite ravers and people who enjoy wearing headphones in crowded sports bars.
—Boone Ashworth, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020
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Rowdy ravers and studious music nerds could feel equally at home, exulting in the fact that three very different careers had led three very different producers to the same place, at the same time.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2023
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But the underground party scene has always looked forward to the end of the world, and ravers in the West London borough of Hounslow used this most recent harbinger of old capitalism’s fall to celebrate once more.
—Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 13 Apr. 2018
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Beardyman does his best job with the vocal of this track, an experience that is truly unbelievable, nonsensical, and in many ways, relatable for ravers around the world.
—Kat Bein, Billboard, 2 July 2018
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Pacifiers, typically used by ravers to combat the teeth-grinding and jaw-clenching that accompanies an MDMA high.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
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Yet, save for a pop cultural archivist here and there (or perhaps a raver), very few of those variations have found an audience beyond the age-3-and-up children for whom My Little Pony is intended.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 9 June 2011
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