bacchanal
Example Sentences
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The best it can do for jokes is endless animal wordplay—a road sign reading “Gnu Jersey,” a bacchanal dubbed “Burning Mammal.”
At times, this bacchanal can look like a ball of dolphins.
From New York Times
For reasons that are more narratively useful than persuasive, they bring the body with them to their destination, a sprawling compound where a bacchanal is underway.
From New York Times
Fireworks shot out of a bonfire at one Fourth of July bacchanal in the Catskills, leaving guests ducking for cover.
From New York Times
But the gala has drawn criticism for coming across as an unseemly bacchanal in which journalists cozy up to the people they cover.
From New York Times
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