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Example sentences for "carousing"

Lexicographically close words:
carousal; carousals; carouse; caroused; carouses; carp; carpal; carpe; carpel; carpellary
  1. The old life in London, with its gaming, its carousing and gallantry--he could see it all through new eyes, washed clean and clear by the purging winds and storms of heaven.

  2. The pack-horses are in the great stable, and the drivers and ostlers carousing in the tap.

  3. The savages, carousing around their fires, took no notice of him; and, as soon as darkness was fairly down, he had commenced crawling off in the direction of the river.

  4. They had been carousing on mezcal, and were keeping no guard.

  5. We'll have rare fun and carousing at the wedding: and the next time my aunt fills my purse, I'll go halves with you.

  6. The captain refused, sending him word that it was impossible for him to permit gentlemen to remain in his ship, who had disgraced themselves by carousing among the common sailors.

  7. True, these Vandals in their carousing have even forgotten their obstinacy and their love of fighting!

  8. I am on guard to prevent any carousing in the grove.

  9. After carousing here for an hour or more, I observed that a shade had come over the aspect of my friend, who happened to be placed immediately opposite to myself, and said something that intimated a fear of his being unwell.

  10. I ceased not ministering to him and conversing and carousing with him and telling him all manner tales for thirty-nine days.

  11. I abode with them a year, enjoying the pleasures of Cairo and her Nile,[593] and squandering the rest of my money in feasting and carousing till the time drew near for the departure of my uncles, when I fled from them and hid myself.

  12. After we had eaten and drunken we sat conversing and carousing in companionage till the noon of night, when they said to the old man, "Bring us our ordinary, for the hour of sleep is at hand!

  13. Only too often the same drinking and carousing had gone on below as to-day-Henrica had always been compelled to join her aunt's guests, elderly dissolute men of French or Italian origin and easy morals.

  14. So one misfortune follows another; but the gentlemen pay no heed and find forgetfulness in drinking and gambling, carousing and hunting.

  15. Fliolmus, king of the Gothes, was so addicted to drinking, that hee would sit a great part of the night quaffing and carousing with his servants.

  16. And then they had all heard and knew that in Petersburg carousing worldly ladies, and even girls, permit themselves, out of a modish snobbism, pranks far worse than the one which Rovinskaya had proposed.

  17. Bare of trees they left the islands, And the lakes were greatly shrunken, 440 For the ale was in the barrels, And the beer was stored securely For the mighty feast of Pohja, For carousing at the mansion.

  18. A rude hotel with a dirty bar full of carousing half-breeds and rowdy new-comers lay just beyond the end of the uneven railroad tracks which had been laid within the month.

  19. With the increase of reckless drunkenness another evil grew with alarming rapidity, the carousing of boisterous men and women.

  20. He found him sitting in his tent carousing in the midst of his officers, and not at all thinking of an engagement.

  21. Sounds of carousing came through the open casements, but few people were in its streets.

  22. They could see great fires blazing, and round them the Danes were carousing after their forays of the day.

  23. After this cruise they went into a small island, and cleaned, and spent their Christmas ashore, drinking and carousing as long as they had any liquor left, and then went to sea again for more.

  24. Illustration: The crews of Black Beard's and Vane's vessels carousing on the coast of Carolina.

  25. For a bribe the jailer had furnished liquor to some of the prisoners; singing of ribald songs, fighting, shouting, and carousing was the natural consequence.

  26. Roger, hoping to take the pirate by surprise, determined to board her, under the expectation that her crew might be either engaged in stowing the cargo of the captured vessel, or carousing after their victory.

  27. In one of these cells of humane secresy, this worthy man has often eaten his solitary and agitated meal, whilst the soldiers of the tyrant, who were quartered upon his protectress, were carousing in the kitchen immediately above him.

  28. From the carousing rooms under ground, the ear was filled with the sounds of music, and the buzzing of crowds; in short, such a scene of midnight revelry and dissipation I never before beheld.

  29. How he got past the lodge where the turnkeys were carousing is not recorded, but it was probably in female disguise.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carousing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.