Example sentences for: revelry

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

  • Throughout the Southwest, fiestas for San Juan, San Isidro, San Francisco, La Virgen de Guadalupe, and many other favorite saints incorporated religious rituals and secular revelry.

  • It was also piously believed that speaking truth would always prevail over evil; language was not only a moral weapon, but in Shakespeare's fecund and often irreverent imagination, occasion for exuberant revelry:

  • Once rulers understand the political implications of Dionysian revelry, it gets turned to rotten ends.

  • Roseanne and her former bodyguard husband became estranged on New Year's Eve, when in an excessive spirit of revelry he threatened to drive his truck through their house.

  • After a solemn religious service, the rest of the day is given over to revelry.


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