How to Use riotous in a Sentence

riotous

adjective
  • Don’t miss the riotous ride that’s sure to leave you howling with laughter!
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The riotous sequences ends on a close-up of Glinda.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The event ended, deplorably, in a riotous melee that police had to break up.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Their riotous flavor of punk/rock is strong and best listened to with the window rolled down.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 6 July 2017
  • The most riotous season is spring, when many of the plants are in bloom and dripping with color.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The riotous dancing is, for the attendees, those lucky few, a salve on life’s burn.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • His current work is less abrasive, more reggae-themed than riotous.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Sketches that may not have worked fully at one point may get a new life a decade later and prove riotous.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The film is a riotous ode to a musician who broke barriers in more ways than one.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2022
  • But there was little of the riotous opulence for which the restaurant is known.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
  • India is a place rightly known for teeming crowds and riotous traffic.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2020
  • Quan said, opening his speech to riotous applause and cheers from the audience.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Restaurants across our fair land display a riotous array of bubble-off-plumb signs.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a riotous guitar freakout.
    — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • As seen in this riotous new trailer, the sequel picks up where the original series left off.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Because of the riotous abundance of color.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Peonies, avens, and geraniums in riotous colors lead the way.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Stonewall and this parade represent the phase of the fight when niceties were put aside and progress was sought through riotous battle.
    — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
  • The area was once a riotous tangle of green trees and rare plants that more closely resembled a forest than a desert.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The crowd lined the trees as the first really riotous dance party erupted in front of the Blue stage.
    — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
  • See the new photos from the riotous parody below.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
  • The turtle is large and old and must have walked from some farther water toward this new and righteous, riotous place.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Not the riotous cheers of American consumers dancing in the streets.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 July 2024
  • After so many months spent in quarantine, Friedberg is ready to bring her riotous show to stages across the pond.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 25 May 2022
  • No one really knows, and that’s part of BookTok’s riotous charm.
    — Chelsea G. Summers, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The riotous buzzing filled our old farmhouse in Northern Virginia.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2021
  • Skaters buzzed all over Pier 76 and contributed to the show’s riotous finale.
    — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The ending of his book is a beautiful evocation of peace—a riotous man’s homage to stillness.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • She is remembered for her riotous sense of humor, courage, and her passion for serving the lives of others.
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • The leather version was a shade of shiny, riotous red rarely seen on anything but fire trucks or Michael Jackson.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020

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