carousing

[ US /kɝˈaʊzɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈæɹa‍ʊsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    orgiastic festivity
    a night of bacchanalian revelry
    carousing bands of drunken soldiers
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How To Use carousing In A Sentence

  • They go out dining, drinking, and carousing together.
  • The carousing was a necessary stimulant after the long, monotonous drive and exposure to the elements. The Outlet
  • Napoa had not had a peaceful night’s sleep at the camp, confessing that she knew from her dreams that she was still “roaming everywhere,” a euphemism for carousing with her coven. Spellbound
  • As well as turning back the clock on the field, the end of the 90 minutes simply signalled the beginning of a great night's carousing and reminiscing at the players' post-match party.
  • It is the morning after the night before and he is looking relatively chipper despite a late night carousing in Glasgow.
  • Elected to the Illinois legislature in 1936, Daley was a hard-working, clean-living exception to the carousing lifestyle of the state's legislative culture.
  • For example, "mallemaroking" — a word meaning the "carousing of seamen in ice-bound ships. Defined Intervention
  • There was the opportunity to continue drinking and carousing, but I'd had enough.
  • Through that view-medium of misfortune—of a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature death—we view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burns’s were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication. Robert Burns as Poet and Person. November Boughs
  • Sherkin was a pirate kingdom for a brief period of prosperity, providing beaches for careening ships, a safe landfall and opportunity for carousing.
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