Example Sentences

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Elsewhere, though, her lyrics reference everyone from Brad and Angelina to UFC fighter Conor McGregor, while joking about Pilates classes, fast food orgies, and "hot potato pain".

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2022

Was it only a decade ago that runway shows here were orgies of luxury glut?

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2020

When the right people take the podium these three-hour telecasts become something more than fashion shows and orgies of self-congratulation which, make no mistake, they still are.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2020

The streets are orgies of blossoms, boughs of cherries and pears histrionically thick with flowers in basic white and show-off pink.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019

These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood