How to Use bacchanalia in a Sentence

bacchanalia

noun
  • Yes, music festivals are back in full swing, here to sate all your bacchanalia needs.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 27 May 2021
  • Among the vacation bacchanalia and designer haul videos, this one stood out.
    — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
  • It was made by Schutz standing inside the thing, forming and adding clay, melding this wild bacchanalia.
    — Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
  • But before the basketball bacchanalia begins, the bracket needs to be set.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Their bacchanalia of a playoff series begins with Game 1 tonight.
    — Matt Murray, WSJ, 14 May 2018
  • 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
  • Betting is folded into the bacchanalia, so even non-gamblers gamble.
    — J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • While the young actors light up the screen in their other ventures, here, they are simply dragged and squeezed into Levinson's male gaze bacchanalia.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Spent a day last week at the bacchanalia of imagination that is San Diego Comic-Con.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
  • All my pre-planning collapsed into a still-now-overwhelming-to-contemplate bacchanalia of trying stuff.
    — Adam Dalva, Longreads, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The party is legendary—a multi-day bacchanalia drawing revelers from all over Iceland and beyond.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Amid the bacchanalia, Tiffany was preparing his masterstroke.
    — Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mini bars burst with silk eye covers, collagen masks, melatonin sprays and ear plugs, suggesting the bacchanalia Estelle encourages.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
  • Unlike recent eat-the-rich offerings, Blink Twice is only partially about ultra-wealthy bacchanalia.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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, 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, 22 July 2021
  • As Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood bacchanalia prepares to make its big debut, its contenders are slowly coming into focus.
    — Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
  • At night, the citizens of the quaint community of Victory throw raucous, drunken shindigs that are always one lampshade-hat away from going full suburban bacchanalia.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • More than 350 authors will gather on 21 stages for a three-day bacchanalia of literature, which in the past has drawn more than 25,000 people to downtown Berkeley.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
  • More than 350 authors will gather on 21 stages for a three-day bacchanalia of literature, which in the past has drawn more than 25,000 people to downtown Berkeley.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • Cue the wedding-preliminary this and that, the roving bacchanalia of drinking and partying and parasailing, with Marilyn’s fiancé steering clear by design (his and the screenwriters’), so as not to intrude on the girls’ weekend.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2024

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