Example sentences for: raucous

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

  • Without going into detail on each one of these, the difficulty I see is, for instance, with raucous appetite , for raucous means harsh, strident, grating and is commonly associated with voice , where, indeed, it is listed.

  • In his raucous, vaudevillian allegory Dogma , Kevin Smith concocts a scenario in which the will of God comes apocalyptically into conflict with Catholic doctrine.

  • 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 paper says the cabal keeps its hold with public floggings and executions (the story describes a burglar's raucous public hand amputation), intensive street patrols and networks of informants.

  • The problem was that hangings were popular and sometimes drew huge, raucous, picnicking crowds, an image that didn't quite mesh with the orange-blossom gentility the land barons were trying to create.


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