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
It’s so bracing to have that reinforced amid all the breakups and bacchanals of Top 40 radio.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2020
First, Europe’s Renaissance masquerade balls, which were also wild bacchanals.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2018
Inflamed with wine, these bacchanals sang treasonable songs, the whole company joining in chorus, with uproar which drew large groups around the house.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
