How to Use revelry in a Sentence

revelry

noun
  • The revelry starts at the top o’ the morning and lasts well into the night.
    cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The revelry has spread across the Valley for this year's game.
    John Marshall, ajc, 10 Feb. 2023
  • And fans have to trade their revelry at the course for a view from the TV in a recliner.
    Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
  • The water slapped around my ears, muting the revelry on the lawn.
    Essence, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The Carr household was the scene of drunken revelries, and much worse.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • Syd walks in on the revelry and gets invited to join the fun by Richie, which is nice.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • In fact, there was so much food that the revelry lasted for three days.
    Tiffany Blackstone, Good Housekeeping, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But will putting down the bottles for a month make up for the recent weeks' revelry?
    Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2018
  • During this time the city throws a month-long fair that extends the revelry.
    Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2021
  • Click on the link to see our gallery capturing just a snapshot of the revelry.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara Steve Coogan usa Today, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Prince Louis, now seven weeks old, was sadly not brought along with the crew for the day of revelry.
    Josh Duboff, Vanities, 11 June 2018
  • Last week belonged to those with the stamina—and wardrobe—for 24/7 revelry.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 9 May 2022
  • Or the destructive revelry that overtook the city in 2008, when the Phillies won the World Series.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There was a subdued revelry to the evening early on, though.
    Raisa Bruner, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The revelry will come to an end on Sept. 3, at least, at that location.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • With the music up loud and the wind in their faces, they're inspired to turn do some reckless revelry.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 13 July 2018
  • But beneath the revelry, there was a deep sense of unease.
    CBS News, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Up above, in private rooms with large windows, the revelry is in full swing.
    Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Perched in front of the stage, Woods moved slowly in a circle as the camera captured the height of St. Patrick’s Day revelry.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Sure, the parties are epic, but the revelry draws nearly half-a-million people to the Strip.
    Megan L. Wood, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2023
  • To the blues and yellows and pinks of fierce, determined revelry.
    Laura Barton, The New York Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Thousands of singing and dancing devils take over the mountain town for six days of revelry in the streets.
    Kainaz Amaria, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Here are photos from throughout the packed day of St. Patrick’s Day revelry.
    Lauren Booker, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Come summer, sailboats and yachts swarm the medieval town renowned for its round-the-clock revelry.
    Anja Mutić, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • In the midst of their revelry after Ireland wins the match, Death Eaters attack the campsite and the Muggles who live there.
    Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 25 May 2018
  • Due to the nature of the season’s revelry, the music at venues is lagniappe (something extra) to the main scene: what’s going on in the streets.
    Jill K. Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023
  • For the Cubs, is it rivalry or revelry with the Brewers?
    David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • It’s time for some world-class revelry after the Astros clinched the AL pennant.
    Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2019
  • For all this revelry, rooms are rather sober by contrast.
    Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Logan Marshall-Green stars as a man invited to a shindig by his ex-wife, the revelry goes awry and you're left with jaw on the floor by a whopper of a last scene.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024

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