carouse
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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
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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
Bucklaw, shut out from his usual field-sports and joyous carouses by the necessity of remaining concealed within the walls of the castle, became a joyless and uninteresting companion.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
She and her friends fought and caroused up and down Hollywood Boulevard, sleeping on cardboard on street corners or in doorways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
With two schoolmates, he caroused among a circle of townsfolk.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 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
By the time the self-destructive Hadden had caroused himself to death at age 31, Time was a tremendous success, and a new business magazine, Fortune, was on the launching pad.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2010
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
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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
No Seattle cops were anywhere to be seen either, so on that day the crowd lying and carousing on the sidewalk swelled so large that pedestrians had to cross the street to go around.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
The days of carousing in Soho are long past, and even dining out holds little temptation, he said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
“You can bet it’d be quiet over there. Nobody carousing or carrying on. Somebody you can work with when you have to. Better than a lot of other people that way.”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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