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

From huge detailed floor mosaics with mythological scenes to intricate chiseled reliefs of battles and bacchanals, the rich colors and fine details awe in equal measure.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018

Here is one of the three bacchanals painted by Poussin for the Duke de Montmorency.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor