How to Use cacophony in a Sentence

cacophony

noun
  • The sounds of shouting added to the cacophony on the streets.
  • The video opens with a cacophony of clock chimes, church bells, loud ticking.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • The effect is a cacophony of sounds that can sound far away or near, above or below.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
  • As customers stroll down the aisles, they are met with a cacophony of choices.
    — Joel Goldstein, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The saying her name was the creation of that cacophony of sound.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Breakfast was its own cacophony in my ears.
    — Ryan Knighton, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • As the pages turn, the sky lightens and more birds join in until the air rings with an avian cacophony.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The room seemed to hum with the cacophony of love stories converging in one place.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The fans know them by heart, sing in unison and generate a cacophony of noise.
    — Coy Wire and Vivien Jones, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Yes is, in fact, a horror movie, in which no amount of swiping on your phone can drown out the cacophony of death.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2026
  • But the world is loud, and singling out the tune of one bird or whale from the cacophony is difficult.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Their unified song takes over from the cacophony of a conscious brain, and the patient is out.
    — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Their dialects, though not quite the same, will again fill the forest with a cacophony of parrot calls.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Their lifeline of a fire hose ran out, but sporadic calls for help beckoned above the car-alarm cacophony.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Through the rapturous cacophony, the anthem could be made out here and there.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
  • After the final out, a cacophony of honking horns filled the air.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Of course, there's also the pull back to the stressful cacophony of demands.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
  • As a result, a cacophony of cries to turn off the mics and burn the audio mixers is rising.
    — Essence, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Filing past vacant chairs on the baseline, they were startled by a cacophony from above and to the right.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Seagulls lift off the beach, startled by the sudden salty cacophony.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The thermometer rushes up and down, coats come on and off, there’s a cacophony of birdsong and so much mud.
    — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The piercing pops from the firearm were replaced by a different kind of cacophony.
    — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Amidst the cacophony, Wanda freaks out and her magic starts to choke all the people around her.
    — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The cacophony of scooters and cars sometimes drowned the din of the Israeli drone buzzing above.
    — Aryn Baker, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
  • No one has shed their sign yet, though, and with traffic still heavy, a cacophony of honking continues to fill the air.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The cacophony of the city had died down and the insurance building next to the memorial had gone dark.
    — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Amid the cacophony, the company’s stock price soared.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Their tight seal is secure enough to dull the cacophonies of a jackhammer on the street or a chainsaw in the backyard.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The front tires leave the pavement and a cacophony of sand and rock collisions begins to echo through the cabin.
    — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 17 May 2023

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