Example Sentences

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This is the afterglow of a celebration, the vibrant hues—caution-tape yellow and highlighter green—testifying to a party, the exhausted forms evidence of its raucousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Fight week in Riyadh has been strikingly different to the enchantment of a Vegas fight week or the raucousness of a UK stadium showdown.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

Robert Earl Keen’s Friday show at the Birchmere, on a tour designed to let the Texas troubadour say farewell to fans and vice versa, was full of melancholy raucousness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2022

The series has much the same raucousness as Döblin’s novel, if not its tricky structure, not to mention a series of emphatically ecstatic musical sequences indebted as much to EDM as to “Cabaret.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2020

Three members, quite immune to scowl or snub, Disturbed the quiet of the selfsame club; The first in resonance of snore surpassed, The next in raucousness, in both the last.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Seaman, Owen, Sir