How to Use riotous in a Sentence

riotous

adjective

• Think of the riotous calamity of two weeks in the dark.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
• Not that he is put off by more riotous or raunchy scenes.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• The most riotous season is spring, when many of the plants are in bloom and dripping with color.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• The crowd lined the trees as the first really riotous dance party erupted in front of the Blue stage.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• The event ended, deplorably, in a riotous melee that police had to break up.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• Their riotous flavor of punk/rock is strong and best listened to with the window rolled down.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 6 July 2017
• In a riotous bit, Phil (Norman) and Gil (Walker) strut on stage.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 2 Nov. 2019
• The judge said the video belied the notion that Angeli was not part of the riotous entrance into the Capitol.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• Skaters buzzed all over Pier 76 and contributed to the show’s riotous finale.
  — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
• But there was little of the riotous opulence for which the restaurant is known.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
• The banana split cream pie is a riotous medley of flavors.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
• The banana split cream pie is a riotous medley of flavors.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2024
• Stonewall and this parade represent the phase of the fight when niceties were put aside and progress was sought through riotous battle.
  — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
• The film is a riotous ode to a musician who broke barriers in more ways than one.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2022
• The leather version was a shade of shiny, riotous red rarely seen on anything but fire trucks or Michael Jackson.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• The riotous Marmont Fringe Brooch from the same collection?
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Not the riotous cheers of American consumers dancing in the streets.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 July 2024
• The panel has laid out the factual groundwork that shows Trump and some of his acolytes set the stage for and encouraged the riotous mob.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2022
• The practice has taken on a life of its own in my big, riotous Irish Catholic family.
  — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• After so many months spent in quarantine, Friedberg is ready to bring her riotous show to stages across the pond.
  — Kat Bein, SPIN, 25 May 2022
• The area was once a riotous tangle of green trees and rare plants that more closely resembled a forest than a desert.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The movie’s in riotous color, the TV set was black and white, and still little Marty was pulled into the vortex of its strangeness.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Quan said, opening his speech to riotous applause and cheers from the audience.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
• No one really knows, and that’s part of BookTok’s riotous charm.
  — Chelsea G. Summers, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2022
• The riotous buzzing filled our old farmhouse in Northern Virginia.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2021
• From this riotous polyphony of fashion, one look stood out to me (and still does): a man in a black mesh top, black leather loafers, and black Givenchy sunglasses.
  — Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
• The princess often mentions social events, which sound just as riotous as those depicted in The Crown.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2019
• The Texan’s earthy folk, blues and gospel songs are at home amid the riotous laughter of children and the content murmur of picnickers.
  — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 19 June 2018
• Covered in a riotous mix of pale lichens and deep-green moss, the tree’s flaky bark is marred by a long, electric-blue slash of spray paint running across one side of its wide trunk.
  — Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
• Centuries later, after the Romans took over, the new regime continued this tradition, adding the envy of the Greeks to the hatred of the Egyptians, stirring up a riotous stew.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024