How to Use bacchanalia in a Sentence

bacchanalia

noun
  • APB isn’t a free-for-all bacchanalia of shots fired and car crashes.
    — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 18 June 2009
  • Spent a day last week at the bacchanalia of imagination that is San Diego Comic-Con.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
  • It was made by Schutz standing inside the thing, forming and adding clay, melding this wild bacchanalia.
    — Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, music festivals are back in full swing, here to sate all your bacchanalia needs.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 27 May 2021
  • But for many in Sturgis, a city of about 7,000, the brimming bars and bacchanalia will not be welcome during a pandemic.
    — Stephen Groves, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2020
  • But for many in Sturgis, a city of about 7,000, the brimming bars and bacchanalia will not be welcome during a pandemic.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2020
  • But for many in Sturgis, a city of about 7,000, the brimming bars and bacchanalia will not be welcome during a pandemic.
    — Stephen Groves, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020
  • An utter free-for-all of alien-cyborg-A.I. bacchanalia?
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2011
  • His would-be TV slate is a parade of ambition and bacchanalia, of towers and gorgeous women.
    — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 6 Apr. 2017
  • His would-be TV slate is a parade of ambition and bacchanalia, of towers and gorgeous women.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Among the vacation bacchanalia and designer haul videos, this one stood out.
    — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
  • But before the basketball bacchanalia begins, the bracket needs to be set.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Sun, soca, and lots of rum fuels the weeklong bacchanalia that encourages a kind of joy that’s contagious.
    — Kristin Braswell, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Their bacchanalia of a playoff series begins with Game 1 tonight.
    — Matt Murray, WSJ, 14 May 2018
  • That includes a more intimate, black-tie style gala (both Friday nights) and the bacchanalia that draws thousands (Saturdays).
    — Steve Byrne, Freep.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The bacchanalia started with a silver bowl of (optional) Jaegermeister shots for guests, whose seats awaited behind tables pre-littered with stale French fries and wine stains.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But the burgers from Zack Fernandes, who runs the operation, are a reminder that a burger doesn’t have to be an excessive, beefy bacchanalia to be good.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021
  • But the burgers from Zack Fernandes, who runs the operation, are a reminder that a burger doesn’t have to be an excessive, beefy bacchanalia to be good.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But the burgers from Zack Fernandes, who runs the operation, are a reminder that a burger doesn’t have to be an excessive, beefy bacchanalia to be good.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But the burgers from Zack Fernandes, who runs the operation, are a reminder that a burger doesn’t have to be an excessive, beefy bacchanalia to be good.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But the burgers from Zack Fernandes, who runs the operation, are a reminder that a burger doesn’t have to be an excessive, beefy bacchanalia to be good.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • One of Tape One would start slow and mellow — guest-arrival music — then build in tempo and intensity until somewhere around Tape Three the bacchanalia soundtrack kicked in.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The boom times leading up to the 2008 market crash created a bacchanalia of Nerf darts, electric scooters, free-flowing booze, and bottomless snack bins to overwhelm even the most discerning man-child.
    — Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017
  • While Roth presided over bacchanalia in the wings, Mr. Van Halen preferred a more private kind of debauchery, retiring alone to his hotel room to snort cocaine, drink vodka and write songs on his guitar.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
  • And the move to ban outside alcohol has also been credited with taming the debauchery of the infield, as the jockey club has since emphasized music over bacchanalia.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • The memoir instead became a book of general wisdom, drawn from his fourteen years of sobriety and the regret-laden bacchanalia that preceded them.
    — Dan Greene, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The party is legendary—a multi-day bacchanalia drawing revelers from all over Iceland and beyond.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The waves of disturbing imagery and hellish bacchanalia earn mother! its exclamation point and leave the viewer drowning in symbolism.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Some billionaires find Vegas irresistible for its bacchanalia, but Steyer was drinking seltzer with cranberry juice, light on the juice.
    — Max Abelson, Bloomberg.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • That interpretation was common to many viewers, but the artistic director of the ceremony later said the tableau was meant to depict a Greek bacchanalia, and was not staged as a mockery of Christ’s final meal.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 July 2024

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