How to Use hootenanny in a Sentence

hootenanny

noun
  • High-tech met high-proof hootenanny, and nobody looked back.
    — Bob Bonniol, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Watch all the daily shenanigans and hootenanny that happens when the cameras are turned off.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 27 June 2019
  • Before this year’s hootenanny, read through past years’ live chats that have made this tradition special.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Cedar Point is cooking up some family-friendly summer fun with a good ole hootenanny this weekend.
    — Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2018
  • Some were these churlish rock records, others hootenanny folk records, bluegrass/country standards with Mac Wiseman.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, its demonstrative frontman comes off a bit like Jello Biafra-meets-David Byrne at a hootenanny.
    — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The strangely addicting football hootenanny called the NFL Draft is now three-sevenths done.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Walker himself wasn't at the wingnut hootenanny this past weekend, but he was cited from the podium by almost everyone, including Chris Christie.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2014
  • The Naked Susan story begins with an innocent enough family game of charades but has an ending for the hootenanny ages that includes a significant cliffhanger.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Those immigrant families cooled themselves on stoops in the summer as the Beat youths rushed the avenues in pursuit of another hootenanny, intent on getting everywhere fast, following sounds.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
  • If the score often suggests a rock hootenanny at a with-it, youth-courting church, the design brings to mind a sound and light show that might be whipped up for holiday spectacles at such an institution, albeit of a sophisticated order.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
  • But Stapleton’s ability to make a giant concrete edifice seem like an intimate hootenanny with just an acoustic guitar and his deeply expressive voice was a rare accomplishment.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Dylan returned briefly to Minnesota the following May, to sing at a university hootenanny, and Nelson and Pankake saw him again on that occasion.
    — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Well, because the Westword Music Festival has just announced the initial lineup for its 2017 hootenanny.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Frontier Town will transform into a Wild West hootenanny, brimming with live music, interactive games for adults and kids, festive décor, street entertainers and a mouth-watering food and drink menu.
    — Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2021
  • This project was a particular obsession of the last Republican administration and, last month, sensing that the time was ripe for a comeback, many of the superstars in the previous disenfranchisement hootenanny wrote a letter to JeffBo.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Apr. 2017
  • The very budding artist is seen in 1959 participating in a hootenanny with University of Minnesota students at the campus’ Minnesota Hillel building.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 May 2022
  • But new to even him was a reproduction of a 1959 photo of Dylan sitting among some students at a hootenanny on the University of Minnesota campus, recently donated by the man sitting next to young Dylan in the picture.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 May 2022
  • In Jackson Hole, the Bar-T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout & Show transports guests in covered wagons to an alfresco meal accompanied by a hootenanny, an homage to campfire singalongs.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Howl at hootenanny Ozark Natural Science Center presents the annual Bear Hollow Hootenanny fundraiser Saturday and Sunday at the center's main campus north of Huntsville adjacent to the Madison County Wildlife Management Area.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025

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