Example Sentences

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“Sweeney Todd” is invoked in a running gag in which a beggar woman cacophonously pleads not for alms but for “Hamilton” tickets.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2017

Anyone with the mildest case of synaesthesia will have a jarring time of it with some of these paintings, where the same words – Blah Blah Blah – come squeegeed in cacophonously multicoloured arrays.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

Its frontman, Eugene Hutz, a mustachioed Ukrainian-American, favors forest-hued velvet jackets and cacophonously patterned shirts, his glad rags turning heads among the fashion cognoscenti.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2012

Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases.

From Time Magazine Archive

How, also, would this weaver who slumbered so cacophonously welcome a rival to his realms.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter