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
The younger Mr. Lebedev is known for throwing bacchanals at his converted castle in Italy.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020
It’s so bracing to have that reinforced amid all the breakups and bacchanals of Top 40 radio.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2020
They were the torchbearers, the caitiffs, the varlets, the bathkeepers, the inanimate figures whose faces watched from the shadows the great orgies of Tiberius, the bacchanals of satraps, kings, captains and squires.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
