How to Use hootenanny in a Sentence

hootenanny

noun

• Watch all the daily shenanigans and hootenanny that happens when the cameras are turned off.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 27 June 2019
• In fact, its demonstrative frontman comes off a bit like Jello Biafra-meets-David Byrne at a hootenanny.
  — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 21 Dec. 2017
• The strangely addicting football hootenanny called the NFL Draft is now three-sevenths done.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Mr. Uhry and Mr. Waldman brought Welty’s shadowy fantasyland down to earth and into the light, setting the plot to the rambunctious rhythms of a hootenanny, where tall tales are swapped and party drinks come in jugs.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2016
• Cedar Point is cooking up some family-friendly summer fun with a good ole hootenanny this weekend.
  — Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2018
• But this is no small-county hootenanny: the Liffey Descent draws an international crowd of more than 2,000 kayakers from all over Europe.
  — Alex Schechter, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2018
• Walker himself wasn't at the wingnut hootenanny this past weekend, but he was cited from the podium by almost everyone, including Chris Christie.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2014
• Dylan returned briefly to Minnesota the following May, to sing at a university hootenanny, and Nelson and Pankake saw him again on that occasion.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Well, because the Westword Music Festival has just announced the initial lineup for its 2017 hootenanny.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 28 Feb. 2017
• If the score often suggests a rock hootenanny at a with-it, youth-courting church, the design brings to mind a sound and light show that might be whipped up for holiday spectacles at such an institution, albeit of a sophisticated order.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• The Collaboration turned out to be a Brandi Carlile-curated, all-female hootenanny.
  — Terence Cawley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
• Those immigrant families cooled themselves on stoops in the summer as the Beat youths rushed the avenues in pursuit of another hootenanny, intent on getting everywhere fast, following sounds.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
• Frontier Town will transform into a Wild West hootenanny, brimming with live music, interactive games for adults and kids, festive décor, street entertainers and a mouth-watering food and drink menu.
  — Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2021
• The very budding artist is seen in 1959 participating in a hootenanny with University of Minnesota students at the campus’ Minnesota Hillel building.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 May 2022
• This project was a particular obsession of the last Republican administration and, last month, sensing that the time was ripe for a comeback, many of the superstars in the previous disenfranchisement hootenanny wrote a letter to JeffBo.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Apr. 2017
• These famed disciples manage to maintain a spontaneous atmosphere with sometimes shambolic hootenanny vocals while exhibiting their typically stunning instrumental prowess.
  — Barry Mazor, WSJ, 3 May 2022

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