carouse

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

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2022

In order to define gin, however, or to pronounce on its universal impact, it’s not enough to bemoan the excesses of the past or to carouse amid the wares of the present.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019

In danger of flunking out of history class, they stumble on a time machine that lets them carouse with Napoleon, Joan of Arc and more; George Carlin plays their time travel guide.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2018

The two would carouse in Singapore off-and-on again for the next 15 years as Gilbeau worked his way up the Navy ladder.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2017

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

And what amusement, what material revelry can be compared with the great carouses of words in which the young can still indulge?

From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

We called it the “Cove,” the beach where I fished and bodysurfed and snorkeled and caroused with my brother, sister, cousins and friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

The father caroused, the mother simmered, and there came a day when she decided to leave him.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 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

At Albergaccio, the inn where Machiavelli once caroused, I sat under the barreled ceiling for wine and a hearty lunch of pici with wild boar sauce.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014

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

Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

His songs blended the scabrous and the sentimental, ranging from carousing anthems to snapshots of life in the gutter to unexpectedly tender love songs.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 30, 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

It was late, but a bone expert from Chicago had presented that night and they might still be carousing in the local saloons.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead