riotously

How To Use riotously In A Sentence

• In the play s celebrated central act they get riotously tipsy as they await the nocturnal arrival of the Gallic Romeo.
• We move swiftly past riotously colonised rock faces of the cliffs into the eerie green water below the arch.
• It's a stream of consciousness one man play about a man with a bucket on his head and is amusing and interesting rather than riotously funny.
• This sequel takes a riotously maximalist approach.
• An early shirred rug with a soft, faded palette of multicolored flowers that was once riotously bold hangs in the principal bedroom.
• He was sitting at a supper-table smoking a cigarette, and gazing somewhat sadly -- it seemed to me -- at the pandemoniac phantasmagoria of screaming dancers, the glittering cosmopolitan chaos that multiplied itself riotously in the mirrored walls of the great flaring ball-room, where under-dressed women, waving many-coloured paper lanterns, rode on the shoulders of grotesquely clad men prancing to joyous music. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
• August 26, A.D. 2065, the Board, sitting in London, was informed by De Forest that the District of Northern Illinois had riotously cut itself out of all systems and would remain disconnected till the Board should take over and administer it direct. A Diversity of Creatures
• He was matchlessly unorthodox, brave, loving, generous, riotously funny, as well as shrewd and unsentimental, in a blend of human chemistry that is indeed irreplaceable.
• Raven black curls fell riotously around her face, holding no semblance at all to the painfully tidy styles of the London ton.
• August 9, 1976, in Alexandra, of a "[g] unshot wound of abdomen … whilst riotously assaulting the police — homicide — anaesthesia and surgery competent. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976