Example sentences for: orgies

How can you use “orgies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Remember, most of the rest of the world watches Hollywood movies without engaging in orgies of violence.)

  • The Dionysian comes from Dionysius, the god of wine and fertility, who was worshipped with drunken orgies in the woods at which nonparticipants were ripped to pieces.

  • Most reviewers pillory the film's highly publicized group-sex scene, in which human figures were digitally inserted to avoid an NC-17 rating: "the most pompous orgy in the history of the movies" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), and "one of the least erotic orgies ever filmed" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click for Slate critic David Edelstein's review and for an "Explainer" on Arthur Schnitzler, who wrote the novella that Eyes Wide Shut is based on.

  • The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies.

  • If the writer has mistresses, the painter has orgies.


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