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
The inhabitants shut themselves up in their houses while these bacchanals ran riot in the streets, bedecked in French and Indian finery, and making hideous both day and night with their ribald chansons.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
