carouse

“What a pity the fair lady can’t be there, invisible,” Ibsen’s Hedda grumbled at being left home while the men got to carouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

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

With the captain, however, he held a greater confidence; and although no particulars were entered into, it transpired during their carouses that he and the law were at variance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

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

They caroused with the same intensity they brought to the workplace.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019

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

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

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 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

When they climbed aboard there were only a handful of people, most of them clearly heading home from a night of carousing as opposed to going off to work.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland