Example sentences for: riotous

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

  • Hong Kong by night can suit any taste — riotous, sedate, raw, or cultured.

  • ( Slate 's David Edelstein is one of the film's biggest fans, saying it's "better than anyone dared hope: bigger, more inventive, and more frolicsome than its predecessor, with a grab bag of scatological gags that are almost as riotous when you think back on them."

  • At the opposite extreme are massive, almost riotous processions of thousands of bellowing, sweat-drenched men fighting to carry a huge portable shrine through the streets to a symbolic destination.

  • The Post states that the Las Vegas cops are looking at a video tape of the fight and its riotous aftermath, and goes on to report that "a portion of Holyfield's ear was recovered by Mitch Libonati, a hotel employee.

  • Pile-ons: In a New Republic appreciation of his late friend J. Anthony Lukas, Alan Brinkley says Big Trouble is "a story told with such wit, energy, and grace that it becomes a riotous, sprawling historical entertainment."


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