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Example sentences for "orgy"

Lexicographically close words:
orgies; orgin; orgue; orgueil; orgulous; ori; orie; oriels; orientale; orientales
  1. I am giving an orgy to-night, just to amuse him.

  2. Orgy awaited them in the taverns and brothels along the canal.

  3. Two reprobate hussies had been the priestesses of this union planned at some orgy amid the degrading familiarities of two tipsy old sinners.

  4. Through the door, left ajar, there came, like a lightning-flash, a streak of light with an accompaniment of the crescendo of the orgy and the fragrance of a banquet of the choicest description.

  5. The effect of their protracted orgy was plainly visible in the bloodshot eyes and heavy movements of both men.

  6. It was then we realized that a wild orgy of indescribable debauchery was in progress.

  7. Fires were lighted upon the beach, and the wild orgy continued.

  8. I was tired of making mysteries and wanted to enjoy them all together, and resolved that the orgy should take place that night.

  9. My glances frightened her, for she was doubtless taking part in an orgy for the first time.

  10. Italy is not suffering from an orgy of individualism in her people but from an orgy of egotism--which is quite a different matter.

  11. Men had come in for the orgy from all the outlying camps.

  12. Whereupon the newly emancipated slaves of a foreign tyranny rushed to partake in the orgy of sweetmeats which came tumbling out into the street.

  13. In an orgy of majority government both stood out for the sanctity of minorities, especially when those minorities represented inviolable principles of vital import to the majority.

  14. They were an orgy and a prophecy, these flowers.

  15. She was behaving like an old mother in an advertisement, like the silver-haired old lady who leads the home circle in its orgy of eating Mackintosh's toffee or who reads the Weekly Telegraph in plaques at railway-stations.

  16. The incessant orgy of sound that by day had been but the tuneless rattling of healthy throats and the chatter of castanets became charged with tragedy by its passage through the grave twilight.

  17. He went on in a voice which implied that he was forgiving her freely for an orgy of impertinence.

  18. Broad Street, just before the stock-market begins its daily orgy of frenzied finance, is perhaps the most orderly and imposing of any of the splendid thoroughfares in New York's commercial center.

  19. The cries of the dying, the frightful tumult raised by this death orgy of wind and sea, instead of frightening him, sounded in his ears like the most sublime music he had ever heard.

  20. All the orgy of Louvain was repeated here, unchronicled to our people at home.

  21. It brings you back from the destructive orgy of war to the simple, constructive things of life.

  22. This must have brought a holocaust of reprisals that would have made the orgy of Louvain comparatively insignificant.

  23. Let us make our deaths worth while, and at the back of this unknown warrior turn this day's Tribute to Issus into an orgy of revenge that will echo through the ages and cause black skins to blanch at each repetition of the rites of Issus.

  24. These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims.

  25. Five years ago such a motion would have furnished an orgy of alleged humour, and been laughed out of the House.

  26. What seems to be at this moment an orgy of Nationalism in South Africa or elsewhere is merely its death gasp.

  27. The only scene to which we gave the epithet infernal: an orgy of knights in Sicily.

  28. Or was it, perhaps, that at the outset of an orgy there is a certain unwonted lucidity of mind?

  29. And as the drums and yelling of the barbarous orgy outside gradually sank into the silence of night, even that, strange to say, failed to remind him.

  30. As they lay watching the unearthly orgy at the fire a plan slowly took shape in McElroy's mind.

  31. Sooner or later she would fail, and then would come the last orgy of the rites of a Skin for a Skin.

  32. The orgy at the fire was lifting its tone of riot into one of savagery and menace, the tom-toms beat more swiftly with gaining excitement, and the yapping yells were growing more frequent.

  33. Tarzan knew that it would remain there now until evening, and that the blacks were planning a feast and orgy in celebration of their capture.

  34. Secondarily was the excuse for an orgy of celebration was the hunt successful, and the fact that such fetes were rendered doubly pleasurable by the presence of a live creature that might be put to death by torture.

  35. As there was nothing in particular to feast upon in the village there was little life in the single street, for only an orgy of flesh and native beer could draw out the people of Mbonga.

  36. His captors were leading him to a hut where he might be confined and guarded against the coming of the nocturnal orgy that would mark his torture-laden death.

  37. Wherever she turned "The Home" stared back at her, an orgy of red and blue surrounding the smiling effigy of the actress.

  38. The orgy is resumed, when suddenly by another transformation we are taken to the prison where Marguerite is awaiting death.

  39. The second act opens upon an orgy of the evil spirits in the cavern of St. Irene.

  40. The effect of the wine and the emotions roused by the scenes of this orgy were visible on his face; his hair was dripping with the perfumed salves that had been rubbed into it.

  41. Their conception of war is that it is an inevitable orgy of human slaughter, against which humanity is powerless to protect itself.

  42. That night, when houses that he had set on fire were blazing in the Rue Royale (he had had petroleum pumped upon them by fire-engines), there was a fierce orgy held by the light of the flames before the Church of the Madeleine.

  43. What a wild orgy salamander-like creatures must have been holding behind his sweaty forehead.

  44. It was a shrieking, greedy war of competition, waged with every conceivable means, a wild, shameless orgy of acquisitiveness, but for that very reason not lacking in a certain greatness.

  45. Though it disgusted him to be wedged into a small space with a lot of noisy men, he had come here in the desire to escape the wild orgy of his thoughts.

  46. Disgusted with the orgy of banality, Frederick moved off to be alone with his thoughts.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orgy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; bat; binge; bout; bust; carousal; carouse; celebration; craze; debauch; debauchery; delirium; dissipation; drunk; ecstasy; escapade; fling; frenzy; furor; fury; guzzle; hysteria; intoxication; jag; lark; madness; orgasm; orgy; party; passion; ploy; potation; rage; rampage; rapture; ravishment; revel; splurge; spree; symposium; tear; toot; transport; wassail