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carouse

[kuh-rauz] / kəˈraʊz /


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The men talk ceaselessly—about longevity, about their careers—and carouse liberally, but even the most quotidian of their remarks acquires a poetic gravity in the context of the film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

We've compiled our most Oktoberfest-approved recipes for those who want to carouse from home.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2022

Of course we would want to carouse and break bread with Stanley Tucci.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2021

In order to define gin, however, or to pronounce on its universal impact, it’s not enough to bemoan the excesses of the past or to carouse amid the wares of the present.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

Let them play poker and carouse all they wanted, all Jean Louise wanted was for the old house to be taken care of.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Susan Sarandon, dying of cancer, carouses in her pajamas with her kids, belting out the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell anthem into a curling iron.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2018

The protagonist of “Heroes for Sale,” played by Richard Barthelmess, battles his way through World I and carouses throughout the Roaring Twenties only to wind up bewildered on the bread line.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2017

At town-hall meetings, conferences, white-sausage breakfasts, dinners, and late-night carouses, I encountered many types.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016

Single Black And White is strident and sonorous; while the Beatlesesque Teeth White carouses around a choppy guitar groove.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015

He had also risked his life in a number of foolish ways at recent festal carouses.

From A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill

We called it the “Cove,” the beach where I fished and bodysurfed and snorkeled and caroused with my brother, sister, cousins and friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

They caroused with the same intensity they brought to the workplace.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019

The father caroused, the mother simmered, and there came a day when she decided to leave him.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018

The Lapin is atmospheric: a two-room cabin from the 1860s where generations of artists and ne’er-do-wells have caroused, from the impressionists onwards.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2015

Food was eaten, mead was drunk, and they caroused and joked and talked and boasted and laughed as the fires became glowing coals, until the sun crept up above the horizon.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

And that was so shocking that the Chicago Cubs even hired a private investigator to see if late-night carousing was the source of Wilson’s woes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: The country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: the country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Restaurants that serve brunch are often chockfull of carousing patrons, happily sipping on the customary brunch libations while the line cooks are falling apart due to drudgery.

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2023

So it was when George and Wesley picked up their fiddle and banjo on days of carousing.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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