How To Use Cacophony In A Sentence

There is a constant cacophony of owl hoots and rustling rats. Times, Sunday Times
Tracking sports 'online cacophony is tricky enough when just focusing on league websites. NBC's Michaels making Olympic Games comeback
The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction.
I knew I caught a whiff of something flammable in the office air Friday afternoon when a cacophony of squawking arose from a neighboring borough of Cubeville.
The mind instantly converts an innocent remark into a cacophony of suggestive possibilities.

Notice the ways in which the problem/argument is posited in the octave and the solution/response is presented in the sestet; moreover, to further the problem/argument, Hopkins relies heavily upon cacophony in the octave but turns heavily to euphony in the sestet. Argument in verse
Even though he had to raise his voice to be heard over the cacophony of barks and meows and snarls, Al made sure his tone was scathing as he went on opening cages.
A cacophony of rhythms and sounds stream through the studio walls and flood the air.
Slowly, with a cacophony of noise and steam and crunching power, we pulled away. Times, Sunday Times
The spirit of togetherness, of giving, of peace and goodwill overcomes the commercial cacophony.
A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.
If you listen closely enough, you should be able to make out the angry words above the din: a cacophony of female voices raised to the rafters with one common message for their menfolk.
We have to pick our way to sanity through a cacophony of pressure and hassle which are not the product of any one moment in time but of the times in which we live.
Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems.
Suddenly, the once somber and silent pressroom erupted in a cacophony of calls vying for the president's attention.
One would expect the relentless cacophony of vulgarities and the unrelenting evocation of disturbing mental images first to shock, then to have a numbing effect on the audience.
Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
Buses, lorries and heavy vehicles stream past in endless cacophony. Times, Sunday Times
The homogenous and sparse population was replaced by the restless diversity, sprawl and cacophony of one of the fastest growing places in America.
However, he made out the words Dennier and Earth in the cacophony of clicks and hisses.
Horse and rider raced along in a cacophony of breaking branches, shouts, and whinnies. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
On one side was Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, railing against what he called the cacophony of Web 2.0 and the calamitous effects of user-generated content on our culture. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
The Danish astrologer I referred to is one such individual, joining in the cacophony of screeches and strident appeals to action, all based on lies and inventions.
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults.
Like a safety valve, it releases the pent-up pressures of our wired cacophony. Times, Sunday Times
The experience of reading it is bewildering at first, with no friendly narrator to hold your hand and just a cacophony of unidentified voices for company. Times, Sunday Times
The carnival parade was a blast of colour and a cacophony of sound.
To add to the incessant cacophony of all the usual hucksters and souvenir traders, the pilgrims and the clergy, the temple is also still being built.
As the drummer spits out a cacophony of quick-wristed rhythms and slashing fills, the music rages on to a cathartic finale.
Suddenly all the indicators began flashing an angry red and several alarms signals went off at once creating a loud cacophony of buzzes, sirens and wails.
Their cacophony is making the biggest mark of the information age. We are all the media
He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind.
Rather than a cacophony, it makes of itself a kind of polyphony, an antiphonal richness, an enjoyment of life and the capacity to sing, every day a kind of celebration. Guanajuato's sonic landscape
The noise and music from the bars, the restaurants and the discotheques gets all mixed up to produce an indescribable cacophony of sounds which carries on until the wee hours of the night and hardly lets anyone sleep.
It was every bit as delicious as it sounds, a cacophony of flavours in which the oysters still managed to hold their own.
A cacophony of honks and screeches filled the city as we drove there.
Boomers 'lump sums are generating a cacophony of sales pitches from the financial-services industry. Managing your retirement fund can be tricky
Increasingly, we deal with the hyperculture cacophony by cocooning - commuting home with headphones on while working on our laptops.
At home, at work and in the street the cacophony never ceases.
A cacophony of loud snaps and steps echoed through the forest, oftentimes followed by the loud blast of a rifle.
As I walked into the room I was overwhelmed by the cacophony of images: statues, chromolithographs, assorted fabrics, crosses, and varied knick-knacks decorated a long, horizontal altar.
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
Many different languages were spoken, and a multitude of sectional hatreds were combined in troubled cacophony.
The cacophony of strong flavours failed to hide the dryness of the chicken.
We round the bight and suddenly the cacophony ceases.
They had scrambled almost back to the road as the band's cacophony rose to a crescendo.
Lost in cacophony of the horse-race press coverage are the policies that the Republicans are pushing. Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats
I could hear the pigeons cooing overhead, a constant cacophony of noise that filtered down from the eighth floor.
Scientists searching for patterns within this cacophony of lingoes are convinced that languages hold pivotal clues to questions about human history that other areas of study have been unable to answer.
The constant sound of Calcutta is the cacophony of horns and the descant of millions of crows.
Buddy is both daunted and enraptured by the cacophony of sights and sounds of the big city.
When she did the right side there was a cacophony of cracks that sounded like fireworks going off.
Without the ability to organize by activity, Twitter and Facebook feeds remain a cacophony of messages (they encourage people to send what I call flam -- Friends 'Lovingly Annoying Messages). Civilities
It will probably be a dissonant chord to help you see that it is the cacophony, the crack between the major expectations, where the light of n|om jazz shines its ray. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
It may well be the sound of the suburbs, drawing on a cacophony of influences born out of a misspent youth, but to paraphrase that great 80s catchphrase, where's the beef?
Inside: the mellifluous cacophony of the gaming machines, the tintinnabulations of the bells.
At the initial stage, there is bound to be a glut of representation resulting in a cacophony of rhetoric.
Several hundred thousand newly arrived cars and trucks have turned Tirana into a cacophony of novice drivers, congestion and accidents.
And there was certainly plenty of noise yesterday, as the unsilenced engines capable of turning at 18,000 revs a minute produced an array of screams and yawps: a barbaric cacophony or the music of the cylinders, according to taste.
I loved it so much that I wanted to shout about it over the cacophony of the real world.
A cacophony of sounds and flurry of images create a visual and auditory whirlpool for the senses.
You'd think that being contracted to churn out songs like a musical sausage machine, would lead to a cacophony of trite pappy pop.
On the pitch two gallant teams went at it hammer and tongs while off it, their passionate supporters kept up an incessant cacophony, which will not, I'll warrant, be equalled at the county final.
The moment the Dura's twin engines stuttered and vibrated into life in a cacophony of backfiring and oily blue smoke, Kara's resolve suddenly deserted her.
The steel sparked, flashing in the half-light like lightning bugs in a cacophony of musical pings!
A cacophony of pounding engines, honking of horns, screeching of brakes and Spanish profanity encompasses me, surround-sound style.
For an audience filled with professional headbangers, waiting to get their rock and rolls off with their favorite brand of brazen electrical cacophony, this is a risk of monumental proportions.
With a yellow bird on the Seagrape terrace, I sit transfixed as the cocktail, a blend of three local rums, accentuates the robust cacophony of tree frogs.
The homogenous and sparse population was replaced by the restless diversity, sprawl and cacophony of one of the fastest growing places in America.
For the next two months, though the result appears preordained, the Democratic roadshow will barnstorm the country from coast to coast against Bush, more symphony than cacophony.
Expect the cacophony to be accompanied by fourth-rate comics and obscure television presenters singing along. Times, Sunday Times
Rebecca West filled Black Lamb and Grey Falcon with brilliant speeches and diatribes by a polyglot cast of characters, and Furst has a similar cacophony of speakers analyzing every detail of the political situation.
I found the restaurants and bars serving coffee and liquor with gusto and the cacophony raised by the tinkling of pegs and cups often made it impossible for us to hear azan from the mosque.
But they no longer sounded like a maddening cacophony bursting concessively on the eardrums and the mind. Beneath an opal moon
Thirty years later I can still hear the mastodons calling to one another, their cries muted behind the cacophony of mortgage repayments, phone bills, children's shoes and poll tax demands. Jasper Fforde discusses Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just
Sitting on a traditional bench of bamboo and rope called a charpoy, Imran patiently wrote details in his notepad while Talat strained to make sense of a cacophony of complaints from the villagers who surrounded them. BBC News - Home
Their excited babble and their laughter carried far - the cacophony that ruined many a good hunt.
As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults.
Outlined in the speech was a cacophony of putative legislation - it's going to be a packed parliamentary session.
The stench of regimented, major chord blokedom, the cacophony of lad rock, shows no signs of abatement. The Music Fix
Occasionally, a train driver would add to the cacophony by tooting his horn.
There was an immediate cacophony of hoots, bellows, screams, shrieks and roars.
The result is a cacophony, and nobody is the wiser about what is happening or is likely to happen to the economy.
But the fact that two of the EP's four unique songs spiral into cacophony at various points reduces the listenability of the EP.
Birds form a group and create a cacophony of sound to ward off the attacks.
Much of it takes place in pitch darkness to a cacophony of industrial noise. Times, Sunday Times
When they first arrived, therih-hara-tan had only been able to identify the irritating to them cacophony of noise emitting from the bioneural gel packs. String Theory, Book 3: Evolution
Ethiopia's clogged capital uncovers a cacophony of sounds, smells and images. Times, Sunday Times
The usual song is a cacophony of gargles, chitters and squawks.
My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumberous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacophony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof. Vampishone Diary Entry
She turns them all on so she can listen to the crazy chorus of crescendoing cacophony; it's a distressing dissonance like chattering chipmunks and chirping canaries conversing. Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Saw Lady
Birds were chirping in a cacophony of songs, while somewhere in the background there was the distinctive and yet subtle whisper of leaves rustling.
Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film, but normally one would avoid such cacophony.
Suddenly all the indicators began flashing an angry red and several alarm signals went off at once creating a loud cacophony of buzzes, sirens and wails.
Noisy generators added to the cacophony of street sounds, mixing in with scooters, car horns and the ever-present meringue music.
But you need only step a few streets away from the beach for the cacophony to subside and for peace to be restored.
The sky was a glary white, as if the storms had leached all color from it, and as we drove a cacophony of insects swelled up in chorus to greet us. Rainbow’s End
There is complete cacophony on what is a netbook versus a notebook.
That said, my mailbag is a clamouring cacophony from the misunderstood and under-appreciated, not necessarily the wronged and the righteous. Dear Mariella: I've been married for 40 years but I feel I might want to live on my own now
I heard the scratching now, not only louder than before but as if from a multitude of pens, generations of nibs, a calligraphic cacophony. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
The woods became alive with sound, a great cacophony of noises rising as the two beings fought.
At this point the proceedings were suddenly interrupted by a cacophony of noise. Everybody turned to face the source of the racket.
They would fly, grouped together in the shape of a diamond, all coming out of one tree in a cacophony of chirping.
Perhaps harmonies such as these could form a suitable accompaniment to a horror film, but normally one would avoid such cacophony.
But, when in the cacophony of sirens and horns, just past Ludhiana, a donkey dragging a heavy cartload, just froze, there was nothing to do but wait.
Shrieking thunder echoed and re-echoed throughout the gun chamber, shaking dust from the pipes that began to yammer as fuel gushed along them, adding their din to the cacophony.
Their excited babble and their laughter carried far - the cacophony that ruined many a good hunt.
The poetic voice progressively splinters into cacophony, in which the gender distinctions progressively collapse.
This leaves the orchestra without a conductor, and a musical cacophony verging on dissonance.
All of this is of course lost in the mindless blends churned out today under the broad category of garam masalas where the individual notes of spices are drowned in a cacophony of muchness.
The global citizen is assaulted with a cacophony of claptrap, and mumbo-jumbo has gained the upper hand.
A group blog in comparison is a cacophony requiring more effort and providing less reward for that effort. Discourse.net: Yes, I am a Data Glutton
Whereas before, it was a discordant cacophony of voices, now there is a clear message being communicated by one side to the other.
While O'Herlihy's panel gives his show more depth, the comedy programme presented by Keane and Taylor is vitiated by a cacophony of voices.
A handful of enviros took part as well, but a cacophony of environmental groups, legislators and their staff experts complain that they were left out.
I stand to be corrected by any twitchers among my readership but I thought that cacophony didn't occur in the middle of winter, so is this another effect of global warming?
Over the weekend, the birds will perch on trees all around the neighborhood and wait for the cacophony to die down.
Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys.
A cacophony of booms and whistles and bangs plays around us, and we eat popcorn and watch the sky explode.
But reservations such as his were drowned out in the widespread cacophony of support-including from throughout the academic community.
At least the continuous cacophony, sounded like a wooden bucket being dragged across the floor, interspersed with the sound of bristles being vigorously applied to stone flags.
Fresh from a hot shower and a good night's sleep under white sheets, she now strides a few yards into a primeval world - the rich cacophony of a thriving tropical forest.
Like a safety valve, it releases the pent-up pressures of our wired cacophony. Times, Sunday Times
There is a constant cacophony of owl hoots and rustling rats. Times, Sunday Times
It has sensors for everything, which bing and beep in a maddening cacophony. The Sun
The room erupted into a cacophony of noise as Ree and Marsey bombarded Bushby with questions.
In the anteroom, little knots of people emit a cacophony of twangs and twiddles while, in the adjacent baronial hall, by a framed portrait of our hero, Dickie Speake's band is limbering up.
That said, my mailbag is a clamouring cacophony from the misunderstood and under-appreciated, not necessarily the wronged and the righteous. Dear Mariella: I've been married for 40 years but I feel I might want to live on my own now
This one hangs a thin story about a New York City cartoonist and his jivey gal pal on a cacophony of racist and sexist imagery. 2009 May : Scrubbles.net
Suddenly the commercials that were created to break through the cacophony have created a deafening sameness.
A human voice speaking Japanese dips above the cacophony, and someone appears to be unwrapping a small package on the right.
This cacophony will not espouse one Political agenda, one religion, or one culture.
Reality is a thunderous cacophony of millions of impressions surging in on us at every moment.
For now, the occupy movement remains multivocal, and the previous opinions represent only a glimpse of the growing cacophony of voices at Chicago's General Assembly. Mark Cassello: Occupy Chicago Regroups After Recent Success
I hear a cacophony of protest. Times, Sunday Times
The track blossoms into a wonderful cacophony of bells, whistles, and wheezes.
The cries of the dying mixed with the howl of the wind and the clatter of footsteps to form an unbearable cacophony of insanity that was all but drowned out by my own silent shriek of torment.
My own voice sounded like a whisper when I screamed for him to stop, lost in the crowd of jeering students and Steph's cacophony of screeches.
Thunder rumbled and wind let out in a cacophony of screeches.
A blast of energy, a cacophony of sound. Times, Sunday Times
Adding to the cacophony is the remodeling of the upstairs apartment. Wanderlustress:
The work is, mercifully, brief, for the ensuing cacophony could deafen even the toughest eardrum.
Galactic binaries, such as the myriad number of white dwarf stars orbiting one another throughout our galaxy, will be broadcasting an unremitting cacophony of waves discernible from space.
On passing under the building a cacophony of kettle drums and trumpets would once have announced the arrival of any important visitor.
The club was a cacophony of down tuned guitars, slap bass and the drummer's double kick.
By July, the dawn chorus is virtually silent compared with the cacophony of spring but a chiffchaff still sounded in the distance. How to get back to nature when camping
On the grassy knoll beside the silvery Elephant Falls, a shrill cacophony of female voices compete with the roar of the cataract.
Several works focus on Times Square, allowing the cacophony of billboards and neon signs to nearly overwhelm the figures and vehicles scurrying below.
The cacophony resonating along the pavements is a mixture of a dozen different languages, revving motor engines and a confusing blend of music from all over Africa.
The resultant cacophony afforded the proprietor his first opportunity to speak.
Textually, his ‘work’ orchestrates a cacophony of human ruin and putrescence.
She has developed a means by which to make chance contend with narrative; lyricism with cacophony and seriality.
Even though he had to raise his voice to be heard over the cacophony of barks and meows and snarls, Al made sure his tone was scathing as he went on opening cages.
If you listen closely enough, you should be able to make out the angry words above the din: a cacophony of female voices raised to the rafters with one common message for their menfolk.
A cacophony of voices in a dozen languages filled the train station.
Most Western directors seem so afraid of boring an audience or losing their interest that they bombard our senses with a blizzard of images and a cacophony of noise.
I am aware of the upcoming mess and -- oh what's that word ... * cacophony* that will echo from the stairwell throughout the house. Gracieux - French Word-A-Day
Just then a cacophony of clocks yawped, pinged, and buzzed in six o'clock. Asimov's Science Fiction
What is troublesome is the difficulty one has in dogging one's own spiritual pursuits in the random cacophony. Leap Year -- Day

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