cocktail party

Example Sentences

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Say you’re mingling at a cocktail party, networking event, singles mixer or church reception.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

He said the most recent time they ran into each other was more than 10 years ago, at a cocktail party.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025

“Hey, X, when you go to a cocktail party, you pick up a little conversation here, another conversation there,” Disney told the animator.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

An enormous cocktail party was not on Ibsen’s itinerary—there is no jazz band in “Hedda Gabler”—but there was a similar sense of impending disaster, before and during the evening in question.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

In modern life, as at this cocktail party, the noise is not incidental, not a laboratory exercise.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel