carouse
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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
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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
With the captain, however, he held a greater confidence; and although no particulars were entered into, it transpired during their carouses that he and the law were at variance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
Tyndall said that while his classmates caroused, he was in his room studying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
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
She was in her late teens and early 20s, renting a loft in a condemned building on Eighth Street and hanging out at the Cedar Tavern, where artists drank, debated and caroused.
From New York Times ● May 31, 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
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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
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
No Seattle cops were anywhere to be seen either, so on that day the crowd lying and carousing on the sidewalk swelled so large that pedestrians had to cross the street to go around.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Restaurants that serve brunch are often chockfull of carousing patrons, happily sipping on the customary brunch libations while the line cooks are falling apart due to drudgery.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2023
Aureliano Segundo’s old carousing comrades laid on his casket a wreath that had a purple ribbon with the words: Cease, cows, life is short.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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