Example Sentences

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But when they flew into L.A. for their first sold-out gig at the Roxy in early November, there was one local site of Saturnalian bad behavior they just had to visit.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2021

Sun Ra’s taste for outrageous outfits and Saturnalian mythology was central to his work, yet sometimes overshadowed his musical importance—he was the most revolutionary American big-band leader after Duke Ellington.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 10, 2015

In the earliest colonial days, funerals were a Saturnalian safety valve.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon my word, if he had asked this boon from Saturn, he would not have got it, though he kept up Saturn's feast all the year round, a truly Saturnalian prince.

From Apocolocyntosis by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

At the vestibule door a porter, somewhat befuddled by Saturnalian merry-making, was waiting sleepily.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)