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carouse

[kuh-rouz] / kəˈraʊz /


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

From Salon Aug. 25, 2022

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

In danger of flunking out of history class, they stumble on a time machine that lets them carouse with Napoleon, Joan of Arc and more; George Carlin plays their time travel guide.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2018

Aspiring comics kvetch and carouse in 1970s L.A. in the new drama “I’m Dying Up Here.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2017

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 built this pleasure-house here in the woods, and hither he rode out from Quebec to enjoy himself in the chase and the carouses that succeed the chase.

From A Chance Acquaintance by Howells, William Dean

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

Everywhere you looked, revellers in funny hats caroused at open-air sheds hastily erected for the weekend.

From The New Yorker Apr. 22, 2019

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

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 camera jogs along with Ken as he holds back snot and tears, doing his best not to alarm the carousing guests.

From Salon Apr. 10, 2023

In 1909, the Elks, in a carousing frame of mind, staged their national convention here; the International Railway Journal called it “the biggest event for the best people in the prettiest town on earth.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 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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