Example sentences for: raucous

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

  • But surround the soundtrack with silence and mount it in a frame of its own, and you have a stylish, silky knockoff of Duke Ellington's "Creole" style: a Hollywood makeover of a Northeastern version of raucous New Orleans jazz.

  • the collection, at its considerable best, finds words for all the high and low notes of the raucous American anthem" (Jean Thompson, the New York Times Book Review ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani is less enamored than most, noting that a few of the stories "appear to be studies for [Jen's] earlier novels and stand somewhat shakily on their own."

  • The loud, raucous Jamaican English dialect and the waving hands reflect the joy with which social relations are conducted here.

  • The Times seems to take the applause as crowd approval of Jiang, but isn't it more likely that the crowd was applauding the power of raucous American protest instead?

  • Another admires women's basketball for discouraging "ladylike behavior" and promoting "raucous ...


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