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

Doubtless, there is in it a pre-Christian mystery which recalls the Saturnalian feasts or some rout of the Bacchanals.

From The Devil's Pool by Sedgwick, Jane Minot

But I hold it good to pardon such freedoms on a march, in respect of the Saturnalian license indulged in such cases to the troops of all nations.

From A Legend of Montrose by Scott, Walter, Sir