How to Use carouse in a Sentence

carouse

verb
  • My brother and his friends went out carousing last night.
  • But a night carousing around the city is just as seductive, and in different ways.
    — Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 16 May 2017
  • Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 July 2024
  • Old-timers recall a place with cheap housing and roadhouse bars, where the ski-season workers would carouse all night.
    — Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Many of them had been carousing in Times Square only hours earlier.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 July 2024
  • Over the years they have been pictured carousing together in party spots in London and around the world.
    — Max Foster, CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Pushkin, however, focused on a single scene, in which a group of youngsters carouse in a spontaneous street party and toast a deceased friend.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Of course, many parents might heave a sigh of relief that their kids aren’t out carousing, and some side-effects, like a drop in teen pregnancies, are positive.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2017
  • The two would carouse in Singapore off-and-on again for the next 15 years as Gilbeau worked his way up the Navy ladder.
    — Kristina Davis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • Grove went on to win 300 games and reach the Hall of Fame; Earnshaw tailed off as his night life of carousing took its toll.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
  • Children carouse their neighborhoods demanding sugary treats.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2018
  • He's surrounded by his co-workers, whooping drunks who carouse and complain about their back-breaking, dirty trade, all in service of The Man.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Old Hollywood movie stars could easily be imagined carousing around the elegant swimming pool.
    — Michael Kolomatsky, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
  • On the festival circuit, Manning Walker and her crew have become known for their commitment to carousing.
    — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Once, visitors like me would head straight to Hong Kong Island, working through its dim sum parlors and markets by day and carousing by night.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2023
  • Among them are top officers found to have been carousing at strip clubs, swinging with multiple partners and frequenting prostitutes in Asia.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Khan may have spent his earlier years carousing with supermodels under the paparazzi glare of London’s nightclubs, but the debonair playboy has had to grow up.
    — Time, 28 June 2018
  • Many of the legions who dressed fantastically, scantily, or both treated the festival as, well, a festival—a reason to carouse.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Befitting the times, the album sessions were reportedly carousing affairs.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Hanging out with these carefree kids—riding in cars with them, eating fast food with them, carousing at the moontower with them, watching the sun come up with them—is pretty close to hanging out with your own friends.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 10 May 2020
  • Kicking back here usually means a full night of Korean BBQ and bar-hopping before carousing at an all-night karaoke joint.
    — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Another man, Bill Holmes, says his group was carousing in Fairbanks the night of Hartman's death and was responsible.
    — Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2017
  • For four hours each morning, Kokeubai says he and his fellow inmates were forced to watch videos of Xi carousing with dignitaries and overseeing military exercises.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Bethany takes the explosive event as a sign to reunite with her old girlfriend Nel (Lena Góra), and carouse across lofts, clubs, and back alleys, leaving her erstwhile partner stranded.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
  • And for a stint spent carousing through Ireland, Olivia Rodrigo coupled her easy brunette with a kittenish flick of liner—an unfailing day-to-night detail.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Rumors of his after-hours carousing spread throughout town, culminating in a now-infamous trip to a celebrity pro-am golf tournament on the Florida Gulf Coast.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 25 July 2017
  • While more of a household name in Great Britain, Wakeman’s ethereal-sorcerer persona onstage was matched in his heyday for barroom carousing and insolvency.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Many of those carousing belong to Belarus’s sprouting technology industry — young, savvy and forward-looking designers, bookish and shy engineers, and many others who aspire to belong.
    — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017

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