Example sentences for: raucous

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

  • Therefore, I predict tonight will be especially raucous.

  • But the movie recovers its high spirits whenever Emma Chambers appears as Thacker's raucous, toothsome sister, who blurts out when she meets Anna that the two could be best friends.

  • Not all these adjectives seem appropriate to me: it is hard for me to envision a context in which satiable appetite, raucous appetite, shrunk appetite, or postprandial appetite might be appropriate; on the other hand, I, like many readers, could probably come up with several other adjectives that are not listed.

  • 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."

  • Patrick Marnham's Rivera is a breezy life and times, a raucous and gossipy tale that is only secondarily about painting.


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