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carouse

[kuh-rauz] / kəˈraʊz /


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The men talk ceaselessly—about longevity, about their careers—and carouse liberally, but even the most quotidian of their remarks acquires a poetic gravity in the context of the film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“What a pity the fair lady can’t be there, invisible,” Ibsen’s Hedda grumbled at being left home while the men got to carouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

We've compiled our most Oktoberfest-approved recipes for those who want to carouse from home.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2022

Of course we would want to carouse and break bread with Stanley Tucci.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2021

Let them play poker and carouse all they wanted, all Jean Louise wanted was for the old house to be taken care of.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Susan Sarandon, dying of cancer, carouses in her pajamas with her kids, belting out the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell anthem into a curling iron.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2018

The protagonist of “Heroes for Sale,” played by Richard Barthelmess, battles his way through World I and carouses throughout the Roaring Twenties only to wind up bewildered on the bread line.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2017

At town-hall meetings, conferences, white-sausage breakfasts, dinners, and late-night carouses, I encountered many types.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016

Single Black And White is strident and sonorous; while the Beatlesesque Teeth White carouses around a choppy guitar groove.

From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015

His face was as yet scarcely marked by the slight Bacchic blotches which told of carouses with Dundas at Wimbledon.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

They caroused with the same intensity they brought to the workplace.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019

Tyndall said that while his classmates caroused, he was in his room studying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2018

With two schoolmates, he caroused among a circle of townsfolk.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

The Lapin is atmospheric: a two-room cabin from the 1860s where generations of artists and ne’er-do-wells have caroused, from the impressionists onwards.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2015

Food was eaten, mead was drunk, and they caroused and joked and talked and boasted and laughed as the fires became glowing coals, until the sun crept up above the horizon.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

And that was so shocking that the Chicago Cubs even hired a private investigator to see if late-night carousing was the source of Wilson’s woes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I was in New York doing a show and perhaps going through some melancholic times and carousing too much and enjoying Broadway, but not really that happy myself.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: The country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Beneath the gaiety and carousing ran an undercurrent of anguish: the country remains locked in a ferocious war with Russia.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Mollie and others began to harbor suspicions about Anna’s ex-husband, Oda Brown, who called himself a businessman but spent most of his time carousing.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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