riotous
Example Sentences
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Would a win over Haiti followed by two defeats be acclaimed as a riotous success if it's enough to scrape into the knockouts as one of the best third-placed teams?
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2026
The teenage boy was arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour and has since been released on bail.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
For thousands of young fans, who swarmed the band’s outlaw concerts under blighted freeways during the pandemic, Dead City are a cathartic social phenomenon that’s reignited a riotous punk rock subculture in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
But in “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” his riotous narrative inspired by his boyhood yuletides in the 1920s, Dylan Thomas serves up a dissenting version of the holiday as a merry mess.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The riotous youngster eventually settled down and became an attorney.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing riotous
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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President Biden's Inaugural Speech (January 2021)
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