bacchanals

Example Sentences

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The office holiday gathering itself has come a long way from the bacchanals I survived early in my career.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

Similar Christmas-themed bacchanals were slated in cities across the U.S. and Europe, from San Francisco and Cincinnati to London and Berlin, on Saturday.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

The younger Mr. Lebedev is known for throwing bacchanals at his converted castle in Italy.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020

It’s so bracing to have that reinforced amid all the breakups and bacchanals of Top 40 radio.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2020

These amorous nations were consistent; to them everything was a God, even fear and its cowardice, even crime and its bacchanals.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de