How to Use cacophony in a Sentence

cacophony

noun

• The sounds of shouting added to the cacophony on the streets.
• Stuffed to the rafters, supermarkets overwhelm with the cacophony of choice.
  — Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 17 June 2020
• The now predictable clamor of pots and pans at 7 p.m. each night, a cacophony of sound in support of healthcare workers.
  — oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2020
• To be sure, allowing the justices to jump in whenever the spirit moved them risked cacophony.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 18 May 2020
• Baghdad, a city of about seven million, is usually a cacophony.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• La Esquina had a solid lunch crowd, dining room chatter warm without cacophony.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 25 Feb. 2020
• The good, the indifferent and the demanding do not produce a cacophony.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• For the waves is entirely disastrous, White cacophony reduced all over.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
• With the cacophony of the crowd growing louder and louder in the hours leading up to their deaths, the men trapped in their cells undoubtedly understood the horror that awaited.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
• Too many, and the commands become a cacophony that causes an erratic and overreactive immune response - a cytokine storm.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2020
• Subway cars during rush hour felt spacious, and shopkeepers talked quietly at empty street markets previously filled with a cacophony of noise.
  — May-Ying Lam, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2020
• Fawns and bunnies carry no scent, though the parents do, and young animals -- excited by the sight of their parents and the chance to feed -- can create a cacophony that sounds like a dinner bell to predators.
  — cleveland, 3 June 2020
• And this involves a cacophony of practices, traditions, biases and norms, some of which are more challenging to understand, let alone address with policy.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, Scientific American, 12 June 2020
• Imagine to have been standing there to see it, Ruth in his youthful and confident prime, smoking his cigar amid the cacophony of bustling crowd, belching train, inquisitive reporters.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• Thanks to our current stay-at-home climate, the pleasures of camping sound more alluring than ever: pristine air, nighttime skies dotted with millions of stars, and a soothing cacophony of nature sounds.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2020
• For much of the day, the site of the 2023 men’s basketball Final Four was a cacophony of sounds and sights.
  — Scott Bordow, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2023
• But out of the cacophony needs to come a core of consensus.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• As the pages turn, the sky lightens and more birds join in until the air rings with an avian cacophony.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• The saying her name was the creation of that cacophony of sound.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the world is loud, and singling out the tune of one bird or whale from the cacophony is difficult.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• The video opens with a cacophony of clock chimes, church bells, loud ticking.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Eat: Loud, crunchy foods to drown out the cacophony of voices.
  — Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
• Their unified song takes over from the cacophony of a conscious brain, and the patient is out.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Of course, there's also the pull back to the stressful cacophony of demands.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
• The cacophony of the city had died down and the insurance building next to the memorial had gone dark.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• When the machines came, the reindeer left, spooked by the cacophony of construction and the whoosh of spinning blades.
  — Jesper Starn, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2022
• Sounds from the scene are heard over the line: a cacophony of voices, a man demanding help with tending to the wound of one of the victims.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• By the end of a workout, when Nacua trots in front of bleachers awash in fans wearing No. 17 jerseys, the cacophony becomes a sustained crescendo.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• But for the population of voters likely to decide the election — a group that dislikes the choice and wants neither man to return to office — the cacophony of recrimination has done little to clarify the choice.
  — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024