Each city has its own Carnival, but none, not even the revelry of Mardi Gras, is as spectacular as Brooklyn's.—Peter Noel, Village Voice, 6 Sept. 1994Wassailing is an ancient English custom, part of the feasts and revelry of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, which have been revived in Colonial Williamsburg.—Joan P. Dutton, The Williamsburg Cookbook, 1975The tall minister stood again at the altar. He waited for the song and the revelry to die.—Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the fullness of their revelry, they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush, and tree to tree …—Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820
the lottery winner was exhausted after a long night of revelry
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For all the revelry, there was a tough, discursive seriousness in the approach that Lang and O’Hara took to their labors in the late forties and early fifties.—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 Thirty-two in-person bands were scheduled to join in the revelry Sunday, organizers said, with 11 from Massachusetts and others from Seattle to New Orleans to Minneapolis.—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025 Walker was not just a place for revelry but also for the convergence of ideas and collaborations.—Michelle Garcia, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2025 Food and bev are at the heart of the project here as well, including the Living Room, which morphs from daytime cafe to evening lounge, and the new Guardian Rooftop, complete with a retractable roof for all-season revelry.—Jake Emen, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for revelry
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