How to Use orgy in a Sentence
orgy
noun-
The sweat, the orgy, the lowest cut pants of all time, the abs!
— Danielle Gibson, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2020 -
And to top it off, film them all having an orgy on the boat.
— Teo Armus, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019 -
Much of the time there’s an orgy or a K-fest (or both) going on in the next room.
— Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023 -
The place has been aflame for the past week in an orgy of rioting.
— Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021 -
And, of course, in true Sense8 fashion, there's an orgy.
— Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 8 June 2018 -
There's been parties with the bohemian set, there's been the art stuff, there's been the orgies.
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2023 -
To think, only weeks ago, an orgy spun in those very same walls.
— refinery29.com, 4 June 2018 -
Marienne could use a friend right now, but alas, Joe is in the middle of an orgy.
— Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2021 -
But for now, Logan looks to have indulged in a bit of an orgy and decides to invest in the park.
— Joanna Robinson, HWD, 29 Apr. 2018 -
Your video for the song shows you in an orgy in a forest, getting arrested by the cops.
— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022 -
At the end of the second Opium War it was razed by British and French troops in an orgy of destruction.
— The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017 -
In Madrid, police stopped the filming of a 50-person orgy.
— Emilio Morenatti, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020 -
Most of all, there is the orgy of unrestrained torture.
— Susie Linfield, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2019 -
The final scene of the movie is literally a ten minute orgy.
— Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 8 June 2018 -
Nasty language, an Eyes Wide Shut orgy, blood fountains of gore.
— Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022 -
That’s because the show’s two big full-ensemble routines are a war and an orgy.
— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2022 -
There's an orgy here, a dog beheading there, and a lot of madness in between.
— Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023 -
January the Thirty-first: Had three-day feast and orgy.
— Kate Greathead, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2017 -
The shower stall, with its 13 (!) shower heads, was pretty much begging to be used in an orgy scene.
— Zoe Weiner, Marie Claire, 17 Apr. 2017 -
There’s an orgy going on in the backyard, boobs and penises being flashed.
— Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022 -
The Premier League’s orgy of spending follows the logic of a gambler.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Feb. 2023 -
And there’s Chloe, a city of strangers where orgies occur without a word being exchanged.
— Steven Litt, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2019 -
The cockpit is an orgy of leather, aluminum, stainless steel, and rubber.
— Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 1 June 2020 -
Somebody get a time machine and invite a young Stephen Colbert to an orgy.
— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 June 2021 -
One scene that has proven to be a roadblock in terms of promotion depicts footage of a real-life orgy in New York.
— Peter Lawrence Kane, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020 -
Yet Wolfe wasn’t always, to borrow the title of a Nora Ephron book, merely a wallflower at the orgy.
— Dwight Garner, New York Times, 15 May 2018 -
Bowen Yang and Cecily Strong, playing the organizers of the orgy, break in a big way at around 3:30.
— Vulture, 17 Apr. 2022 -
In a group of just twenty-three people, there’s a fifty per cent chance that two of them share a birthday, a fun fact that can liven up even the most tepid orgy.
— Sean McGowan, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020 -
People then begin to die but more from an orgy of riches and wine that has everyone scrambling for survival.
— Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024 -
This ancient animal orgy was on full display that evening.
— Benji Jones, Vox, 28 June 2024
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