cacophony

Example Sentences

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Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city's cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction.

From Barron's

In vivid contrast to the cacophony of India's chaotic and bustling towns, swathes of Kumbanad are surreally deserted and half-frozen in time.

From BBC

The failings of the open office are typically sensory, such as noise, headache-inducing lights and visual cacophony—the very things that deaf and autistic people are sensitive to.

From Scientific American

This was met with a cacophony of laughter.

From Salon

Their lifeline of a fire hose ran out, but sporadic calls for help beckoned above the car-alarm cacophony.

From New York Times