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

From Cyprus, island of the Queen of Love, We came to Naxos, and I joined the train Of bacchanals, still singing, as we danced Upon the mountains, to the bell and pipe, Evoe, Bacchus!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by Gilfillan, George