How To Use Raunch In A Sentence

Taking her cue from some of MADONNA's more risque antics, it was pure raunch from the outset, which saw the star sporting a sexy circus mistress's uniform.
This is the 3rd Land Rover I've owned over the years and is by far the quietest with few of the usual rattles and graunches we come to know and love!
It also gained the distinction of being banned in America - presumably because of all those obscene, ribald, raunchy bits about marriage being a partnership of equals.
The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it, -- coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! Cape Cod
I have never heard this phrase used in actual conversation, even on the Left and even among my raunchiest friends. Superversive: A digression

For a reader who knows the primary sources, it is a rich pleasure to see Roman antiquity so thoroughly and feelingly brought back to life. Harris is very modern, very pagan, even raunchy at times, just as the Romans must have been.
He's the perfect point man for the band's brand of hallucinogenic rhythm 'n' raunch, a style they've dubbed ‘cold soul.’
Some interesting extras are included here, mainly segments deemed too raunchy for television.
Her willingness to be raunchy on screen was a major ingredient of her recipe for success.
Its little strut of gaminess provides an attitude that is slightly raunchy, but the pool of warm, mellow flavours and faint raspberry note keep it comfortable in any company.
According to the account given by Labillardiere, confirmed by the information given by Mr. Hekmeyer, the figures are often craunched by women and children, to the latter of whom they serve as dolls, toys, and even money-boxes, as shown by the slits formed in the upper part of the larger objects, which are usually hollow. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
My disgust toward Megan Fox has nothing to do with her thumbs, and everything to do with the fact that she's just a raunchy, stuck-up brat who had the nerve to compare herself to Alan Alda. Megan Fox is hideously disgusting
Get sex into the forefront of your mind by reading or watching something more raunchy than you'd normally choose.
When a bow is drawn across a string, the result might be a musical note at the desired pitch, but on the other hand it might be an undesirable whistle, screech or graunch.
Bradford Council came under fire in 1997 after banning musclemen dance troupe The Chippendales from its venues for being too raunchy - despite the show having no full-frontal nudity.
Explicit language makes a lot of us squirm because it's chock full of taboos: It's crude, it's naughty, it's raunchy, its real.
But after Rooney disappears to check on the day's shoot, Kidd reveals that the second run will be raunchier than the first, possibly prompting more network collywobbles.
No other artist has swung so fluently from hard rock and stripped-down funk to ballads and dance raunch. Times, Sunday Times
Faustus craunched his teeth while the monk was saying all these noble things about the countenance of the Devil, who turning coolly to the physiognomist, said, Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English
In fact, increasingly, people are becoming frustrated and feeling voiceless and powerless to control or stop the kind of raunch coming into their homes.
Oh, and don't forget to throw in her younger brother, who wants to lose his virginity at any cost and is always quick to throw in a raunchy joke.
Mr.Z. is suddenly fired to make room for syndicated raunchmeister Tom Leykis, then is quickly rehired when listener complaints get Leykis's program taken off the air … then is refired a week later when the station juggles its schedule again. Host
Kunis, gorgeous as she is, embodies a new generation of women stars, as she features in a beloved raunchy cartoon in "Family Guy" and boasts of her massive geek chicness, including an abiding love of Star Trek. 'Friends With Benefits': The Anti-Romantic Comedy
Then he smiles with that toothy, raunchy grin and starts talking about all those gay fans.
The top of the snooker table - always exciting, soft velvet and can be risky. Ideal for raunchy , daring sex.
But I think I agree with Eva Cox, quoted in the Levy story, that perhaps raunch is healthy or at least adaptive.
There was no sex on television then, and these scenes were as raunchy as it got.
Rarely have I read, even privately, let alone in public, anything more raunchy.
These staunch proponents of raunch and roll have delivered a fairly entertaining album, if you can get by the shallow lyrics and not entirely original nature of the music.
But you are not to craunch up a Frenchman; remember that! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
The driver graunches the taxi into gear and we pull away.
Provocative is when a girl dresses more openly than could be called alluring and couples this with a raunchy attitude plus she goes into situations where she is unprotected and there are not likely to be gentlemen about to help her. [paradigm shift required] in the male-female divide
a raunchy novel
To break or damage in a grinding sort of way is to graunch, a word tending to replace puckeroo, I think. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
Night and Day has also become notorious for its decision to broadcast a raunchy, late-night omnibus (the other shows go out at teatime).
From Wikipedia: "tranche (often misspelled as traunch or traunche)" or in this case "tranuch Saltzman's in on Paulson stadiums deal (Jack Bog's Blog)
Levy argues that women embracing raunch means women accepting misogyny - a premise that is powerful and, in a way, true.
Expect athleticism, raunch and very strict health and safety measures. Times, Sunday Times
USA Today felt that the film is long on visual dazzle but short on warmth, and the humor is excessively raunchy for a family film’.
The success of cross-dressing comedian Little Shenyang shows that sexual humor is coming out of the closet. Is China ready for raunch?
In New York it was just a raunchy, cynical hour and ten minutes.
Younger fans may know the Clo from the seventh season of Dancing With The Stars, where she stunk up the ballroom with her potty mouth and raunchy routines. Cloris Leachman PETA Ad (Photo)
And, from a novice's perspective, mucking about with soil does look pretty raunchy.
Under Stephen Anthony Head, the buoyantly self-obsessed and sex-obsessed boss—a delectably offensive character—work days are filled with raunchy fun, undergraduate sex prattle, and small humiliations. Bunnies and Lovelorn Males
And some of the Dreaming narratives associated with these works are pretty raunchy!
One day, a few weeks later, I stopped before a store window in a crowd to examine some pictures, satisfied my curiosity, and in stepping back to go away, put the heel of my number ten on a lady's foot with that peculiar "craunch" that you know hurts. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
I graunched my side cover on a six inch curb.
This is both awkward and unnecessary: onomatopoetic words like ching and graunch do easy service as nouns. August 15th, 2006
The rise of raunch - the explicit flaunting of one's sexuality - is all about how we've been persuaded to market ourselves, to advertise our desirability.
She is an amazing role model and like me, loves a bit of raunch. The Sun
Backed by besuited lovelies Ferry next sang the suitably raunchy ‘Can't Let Go’.
As a teenager, she discovered hip-hop, then went to art college and eventually made contact with two pivotal female Svengali figures, Elastica's Justine Frischmann and raunchy MC Peaches, who taught her to use a beatbox.
Restricted by a 12A certificate, the film lacks the raunchiness one would expect from the subject, or the sophisticated charm that might have proved its saving grace.
Scandal: AFLPA rejects players must 'suck it up' Prequel: Bulldogs in earlier, 'raunchier' video NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Expect colour, raunch and provocation. Times, Sunday Times
These grand masters of French pop-punk follow the Ramones formula of backing colourful, catchy, sunny melodies with raunch and muscle.
Some of the dancers in the chorus do have the appropriate raunchiness, and all are technically up to the task.
The tactic ultimately backfired when viewers complained afterward to the BBC Web site that the show wasn't raunchy enough.
Midnight Fantasy, for example, seems to be about phone sex, but has all the raunch of a coffee morning in Slough.
His poetry had a chaste reserve that reflected his Englishness, but off the page he was a merry wit who laughed loudly, told raunchy jokes and felt more at home in a leather bar than a stuffy literary function.
She's there to let the women in the audience know they're not crazy for being there and to set a nonthreateningly raunchy tone.
The raunch smell caused his nose to scrunch up in distaste as he looked at his pet wolf.
Unlike our raunch-culture generation, she never confused degradation with empowerment. Times, Sunday Times
Here, the raunch actually is the reason to like this album.
The driver heads down a boat ramp, aims at the lake and, with a graunch of gears, we're waterborne.
Adding raunch to the regal scaffolding, while the regal scaffolding adds a touch of class to the raunch. Times, Sunday Times
Every truly successful raunchy romantic comedy has at its heart a couple worth rooting for.
Are you sure this comment violates TPM's Terms of Service? traunch President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
King concluded this round of questions by declaring that the title procurement specialist "sounds raunchy. Wanda Sykes on government contracting
I jog to the shops where an old car graunches its gears and travels by in second.
It's expected to receive another traunch of TARP funds as its own exotic and toxic securities ferment into further billion dollar losses. Disrespecting Taxpayers & Shareholders
Inevitably, she only really comes alive for her raunchy dance number.
The novelist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl, one of Ames's L.A. friends, calls Ames's shtick ‘silk-stocking raunch.’
The nasty thing has graunched my finger - how annoying!
The biggest part in the beginning of the third quarter of 2010 and then there was another traunch of that loss that happened during the fourth quarter of 2009. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Unless a sizable traunch of superdelegates show public support for Obama, I think this thing will limp into the convention, where Obama will probably win on the first round. Poll: Obama Up 15 Points In North Carolina
The show also strives to be the stuff of tabloid fodder in a rougher, raunchier way than the more wholesome "Idol. The Judging of Simon Cowell
‘When other videos are raunchy, they blur it, they don't edit it,’ Monifah says.
Each subtle layer of raunch is delivered with a candy-flavoured pink frosting that makes the brutal honesty not only easy to swallow, but side-splittingly tasty to boot.
At the same time, Peters knows that the Karma show is a family affair, so for the real raunch, buy him a drink at the after-party.
The only restriction might well be the hip pocket nerve twanging as it graunches and scrapes past trees or over rocks, swallowing deeply from the fuel tank.
Said the whelp, ‘Wait awhile, O camel, till thou see how I will tear him, and give thee to eat of his flesh, whilst I craunch his bones and drink his blood.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Before long, in came the Merman's wife, who was beautiful of form and favour and with her two children, each having in his hand a young fish, which he craunched as a man would craunch a cucumber. Arabian nights. English
Trying to palm the lever through the gate in a relaxed manner as you drive around town or cruise around country lanes will be greeted with a chorus of graunches and groans.
He gave it to me at a bowling alley; six frames through the first game of bowling, I graunched my knee and decided it would soon be wise to retire hurt.
The midnight shows let you try a more raunchy, daring, adult kind of humour.
This man oozes raunch and there just ain't nuthin you can do about it.
There was no door to the place to knock at or open, but the craunch of a foot was heard on the coal outside, and a girl came in, moist and shivering. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
And while it has been marketed as "salacious," aside from a few anecdotes about players hooking up with local girls (some not of legal age) and a slew of raunchy actions in the clubhouse, McCarthy left a lot out. Jon Greenberg: Odd Man Out ... Again
The bodie of this vessell was all run ouer with a Vine, the stringes and vaines whereof, and small curling twists, were of Topas, farre better then is founde in the Ilande Ophiadis, the leaues of fine smaragd, and the braunches of Amethist, to the sight most beautifull, and to the vnderstanding woonderfull contemplable. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
With all the power of her limbs she sprang and clutched; with all the power of her love she craunched. Woodland Tales
In my four academic years at UW, I have seen Imprint serve up some pretty raunchy stuff.
The chart-topping Brit winners are back in Belfast this week as part of their Out Of Control tour, which has been described as their raunchiest yet. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
Driving Over Lemons may not have the broad appeal of Peter Mayle -- it has not sold like the Provence books, and I don't think it will; it may be a little too raunchy and earthy for the common taste, in a similar way to the fact that Andalucia is a little raunchier than Provence. A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons
With the rather nice alloy wheels, you can now make sure you don't graunch the rims.
The U.S. has now given Morgan Stanley authorization to sell a second 1.5 billion share traunch. StreetInsider.com News Articles
Do you see him fitting well with the darker, typically raunchier humor of Vince Vaughn? Ron Howard And Vince Vaughn Will Explore Relationships In New Comedy » MTV Movies Blog
People complained Friends was nothing but sex, did they really think taking a show that was recognized as “similar to Friends-but raunchier!” was going to fly in the U.S.? Used DVD Bonanza at Hollywood Video » DVDs Worth Watching
Gearbox graunches on changing down from top to third or third to second means an old worn out synchromesh.
They're erogenous zones, so make raunchy use of them by lightly running the tip of your tongue along the edges.
The couple were spotted doing a raunchy snake dance in a nightclub after Peta attended a riotous party he threw.
Before we met the triplets, meaning the Barbaderos, we witnessed a kind of fakey young and raw New York street posse who did a well-choreographed and slightly raunchy dance around the cars accompanied by unconscionably loud dance-club music. Meeting the Chevrolet triplets
On full lock the diffs seem to tie themselves in knots, too, so any getaway is a farce of kangarooing and nasty graunches from the transmission.
The Motor City once again proves itself as a rich source of ridiculous, over-the-top raunch.
They were the raunchier sort of porno magazines.
It has a fascinating article about the all-but-forgotten raunchy Jewish comediennes of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Madonna has admitted she was too raunchy in her early career.
In less than ten minutes from that time the sailor was within six feet of the "hammer-head's" open mouth, -- in imminent danger of being craunched between those quadruple tiers of terrible teeth, and taken into the monster's capacious maw. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
Robertson - whose previous stage-name ‘Henrietta Ford’ perhaps evokes some of the blues-folk raunch she produces on stage - began as a busker on the streets of New Plymouth.
The film, co-produced by filmmaking brothers Ridley and Tony Scott, has enough sex and violence to merit a TV-MA rating but lacks the campy panache of Starz's previous multi-parter, "Spartacus," perhaps the wackiest, raunchy blood-spurter of all time. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
Then, invariably, Grandmommy the non-stop quoter of scripture would suddenly begin telling dirty jokes -- so filthy that my raunchy mother would gasp and I often didn't understand the punchline. Archive 2008-12-01
Taking her cue from some of MADONNA's more risque antics, it was pure raunch from the outset, which saw the star sporting a sexy circus mistress's uniform.
The Reverend's current record Spend a Night in the Box is a stripped-down hot rod of rockabilly raunch.
As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here.
Never has such potentially raunchy role-playing seemed like such good clean fun.
You can't help but bob your shoulders and sway your hips to the raunchy jazz in this number!
All tasted, and John Howland hastily gathering up a portion upon a wooden plate carried it to the Common house for the delectation of the women, that is to say, for Elizabeth Tilley, whose firm young teeth craunched it with much gusto. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
Without stressing that you want snacks and beer foremost he might take you to the raunchiest place he knows of thinking that is what you want. Monterrey Help Please
I have a '92 Toyota Corolla with a gearbox that graunches badly when cold.
Jennifer Lopez in the lead role tones down her forthright sexuality to play the part for flowers and romance rather than raunch.
Loads of dinky synths, some dub and a little rock raunch get Moulinexed into a confusing, almost nauseating aural mush that's anywhere from catchy bizarro-pop to excruciating noise assault.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife,’ announced the first lady, referring to the raunchy TV sitcom oozing with sex-starved housewives on ABC these days.
On ocrelizumab, the step down occurs at certain end market revenue numbers and it's all revenues, it's not cut by indication so I think the first traunch, do you have that detail in front of you now? SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Their stage act is a little too raunchy for television.
The Boarder, having had long practice in the art, craunched at railway speed. Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
Far from being an example of radiant perfection handing down instructions from Mount Sinai about how we should lead our moral lives, Zeus is the embodiment of raunchy behavior, seducing the mortal Alcmena, for example, by pretending to be her husband (thus producing Hercules), and raping Leda in the shape of a swan (thus producing Helen and Polydeuces) -- even having a brief fling with his gay torchbearer, Ganymede. Robert Brustein: Monotonous Monotheism
Oh well, I have special permission to be raunchy because I'm sick and I feel like barfing.
October 31st, 2009 more images more imagesLONDON - Britney Spears music video for new single 3 has been dubbed raunchier than ever. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
We have received certain representations from the British homosexual community, but after due consideration we have taken the view that British fags are a raunchy little group of pagans, bastards, eunuchs, and insurgents and God hates them all and the whole of the UK too," a spokesman for the WBC said yesterday. Archive 2007-06-01
Give us the rows and not the raunch. Times, Sunday Times
But Hefner says he does not resent upstarts that made his once raunchy publication look tame.
The turbulent second movement is almost raunchy while the third, a passacaglia, is essentially a set of nine variations on the opening theme, demarked by the pianist's left hand in the very basement of his instrument.
PVC corsets, purple sequined cat suits, strappy boots and bustiers provided razzle dazzle while crotch pouches and stockings added even more raunch.
To grab attention, some ad executives expect to see more comedy in the mix while others foresee an uptick in raunchier promotions, peppered with f-bombs. *&%@#! and Other Ads Trends for 2012
I finally sneak a look up at him, suddenly feeling incredibly raunchy and dirty.
He needed no second invitation, but fell to work like a wild animal, and craunched bones and flesh between his strong teeth in such a ravenous manner that I had expectations of his choking himself; and I don't know that I should have been sorry if he had. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
The boot should close fully when the hood is retracted and there should be no scrapes or graunches as it operates.
She is a raunchy witch of a woman with a foul mouth.
If the U.S. gets through this second traunch they will have only 4.7 billion shares of StreetInsider.com News Articles
Do it in each direction- wheel bearings tend to graunch more don't they?
I'm sure it freezes, for I heard the ice graunching under the wheels of the carriage.
As they stood there, Mr. B — — 's garden door, just round the corner, was heard to open and slam, and craunch, craunch, came his stately pace upon the gravel. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
It has just the right hint of genteel English raunch, just a tempting suspicion of veiled secrets that a more prosaic subtitle like ‘My rolls in the hay as a London whore’ could simply not convey.
Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil — I, the prostrate votary — felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Villette
I still tell raunchy jokes, but now it's for a bigger audience.
Today the temples are a major tourist attraction, well worth the grinding bus trip from Agra or Gwalior, and the curious arrive in droves from all over the world to gawp and snigger at this unyielding display of raunchiness.
And then something shifted, pulled back with a graunch, dislodging dust over her chin and mouth, and grey dirty light blinded her.
They'd watched a raunchy comedy and almost everyone in the audience had laughed.
Weirdness is starting to replace raunch, or at least work alongside it. Times, Sunday Times
Explicit language makes a lot of us squirm because it's chock full of taboos: It's crude, it's naughty, it's raunchy, its real.
But the truth, however comically exaggerated - an aperçu however raunchily worded - cannot truly offend.
He digs country music and Shania Twain so there can't be a hell of a lot of mental raunch going on.
Yes, bumps will cause some violent tugging at the wheel, and yes, it graunches horribly while reversing at slow speed, but the upside is a whole new chapter written into the laws of physics.
At one point he then took out the aforementioned trumpet and played it with Satchmo-like raunch, singing the refrain in between the lines of melody.
They rub each other up the wrong way, and yet end up having a raunchy scene in a motel room.
A bracing fusion of austere synth-rock and piquant pottymouth, The Teaches of Peaches resonated with punks, gays, electroclash devotees, indie kids, feminists and anyone who got off on really raunchy beats.
When pressing on though, all the random sounds, graunches and jerks disappear and it all comes together beautifully.
Indeed, not a sound was to be heard, except the creak and craunch of the dry snow under our feet. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
The U.S. Treasury disclosed last night that it sold the first 1.5 billion share traunch of its StreetInsider.com News Articles
The rubber graunches and squeaks as it slithers along the course, hitting corners and bouncing to the next.
When a bow is drawn across a string, the result might be a musical note at the desired pitch, but on the other hand it might be an undesirable whistle, screech or graunch.
Repeated service trips for road clunks and thumps and graunches, led to the entire chassis being rebuilt - still horrible road rumble.
And here's me thinking yoga is too raunchy.
The noise now for a short time subsided, and nothing was heard but the low, broken growls of the cannibal troop, as they busily craunched the bones, and tore the flesh on which they were raking their horrid feast. The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont
The public loved it, although that might have been down to the raunch. Times, Sunday Times
As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here.
Student actors had to overcome any natural reserve for their raunchy roles in a new stage play in Manchester.
I soon discovered that one has to have the rear doors on the semitrad cockpit fixed open or latched shut, otherwise you graunch your knuckles on them as the tiller only just clears them.
Maybe someone, having seen Jack Black in "The School of Rock," decided to do something even raunchier with a female teacher and failed to notice that both the star and his material were terrifically funny. Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
Stern doesn't have to be sexy or raunchy to be successful.
There is another aspect of raunch that has not gone unnoticed. Times, Sunday Times
Moorer's voice has the quality of Anita Baker with a gentle raunch.
Perhaps the only criticism I might put forward is that he made the Aunt a little too old, making her lasciviousness and lust a little unbelievable (the book portrays her as a raunchy woman but not that old).
The best-paying pewholder in the Reverend Samuel Reynolds 'church was a Mr. Craunch, whose picture had been made by the joint efforts of the strolling artist Warmell and young Reynolds. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
NORFOLK, Va. — Raunchy comedy videos made by a high-ranking Navy commander and shown to the crew of an aircraft carrier three or four years ago have suddenly proved an embarrassment to the Pentagon that could blight the officer's career. USS Enterprise Video Scandal: Racy Clips Raise Questions About Navy Culture
Said the whelp, 'Wait awhile, O camel, till thou see how I will tear him, and give thee to eat of his flesh, whilst I craunch his bones and drink his blood.' Arabian nights. English
If it doesn't go in then you weren't quick enough, and if it graunches then maybe it's time to look at a synchro.
She had wavy black hair, a talent for the violin, and a raunchy sense of humor quite unlike anything Shipley had ever encountered in a woman.
The movie is billed as a meaner, raunchier version of last year's hit "Bridesmaids. Hollywood Goes Hunting in the Hills
I swallow a couple Klonopin to get my moneymaker good and loose, and lash on the ass-less chaps that are the cornerstone of my raunchy cowpoke rig. The Widow Teasdale and the Ineffable Warmth of Personal Services
Now they craunch it, and crowd snuffling along through the corn-hills! Summerfield or, Life on a Farm

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