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
First, Europe’s Renaissance masquerade balls, which were also wild bacchanals.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2018
None of the leading participants in that decade’s bacchanals are interviewed.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2017
To let pass the solempne and nocturnal bacchanals, the prescript miracles, that are done upon certain days in the West part of England, who hath not heard?
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
