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Example sentences for "revelers"

Lexicographically close words:
revel; revelation; revelations; revelatory; reveled; reveling; revelled; reveller; revellers; revelling
  1. Meton, failing to persuade the Tarentini not to engage in hostilities with the Romans, retired unobserved from the assembly, put garlands on his head, and returned along with some fellow-revelers and a flute girl.

  2. When the revelers were deep in their cups Ulysses and his son Telemachus stole away from the hall and conferred together in secret.

  3. Revelers sat round the laden board and feasted and sang and quaffed rich wines from silver goblets.

  4. At his left a narrow, black passage led down between two squalid buildings, one of which was dark, the other lighted so that the vicious revelers within might see and be seen.

  5. After the revelers had lurched by them, she gave an odd little laugh and would have removed her hand.

  6. The station platform was quite deserted except for the few belated revelers who had remained in town for the night performance of Van Slye's circus.

  7. He watched the drunken revelers who passed and wondered what was happening inside.

  8. The half-drunken crowd of revelers were pouring out of restaurants close by.

  9. I found myself looking down on Goodloets, which lay below the darkness of the Poplars like a long glowworm, brilliant with the lights from the homes of the revelers who were going to bed with a sense of perfect security.

  10. At an hour after that of midnight the revelers came home and left me at my gate, by request, to walk alone in the brilliant spring moonlight through my garden to the wide door back of the white pillars.

  11. Just as he had been about to put his hand on her shoulder, a screeching mob of revelers had come swooping down upon her and, as a torrent of water bears away a leaf, had carried her away.

  12. When he dropped in his chair the revelers went wild with enthusiasm, and Marlowe and Southampton wished to know where the "Stratford Boy" got the poem!

  13. In a play by a modern writer, one scene presents Satan flying at midnight over one of our cities, while the drunken songs and joyous shouts of some gilded revelers rise in the night.

  14. He pauses in his flight to listen, and as the songs and shouts increase in volume he looks down on the revelers and with a bitter sneer soliloquizes thus of them: "Ye are my bondsmen and my thralls, Your lives I fill with bitter pain.

  15. The revelers come in an order regulated by inexorable circumstance.

  16. At that hour the twin columns of glass at its portal are lighted and the Levee pours the first of its revelers into the spacious ground floor drinking room.

  17. Druce and Anson watched over the revelers and directed the entertainers.

  18. It seemed as if ten times as many revelers went out in the day and came back ten times as much intoxicated and as noisy in the night!

  19. And, worst of all, we were disturbed all night by the noisy passage of these revelers returning home.

  20. That very night every one of the revelers died in horrible agony; their bodies, as usual, were thrust into flimsy coffins and buried one on top of another in a hole hastily dug for the purpose.

  21. It was not until nearly daybreak that the more indefatigable revelers became weary of dancing and flirting, so that the Donna was quite exhausted when the last guest had departed.

  22. When the hour of departure arrived, the boat swung out into the stream, amid the laughter and merry shouts of the gay revelers that crowded her decks, as the band flooded the air with music.

  23. To his eyes it seemed as if these revelers recognized him as a fellow, and smiled up in his face, aware that he was in the secret.

  24. He saw the revelers nudging each other and glancing at her, and two or three young men went up and asked her to come for a walk.

  25. It happened one clear, warm, moonlight night in September (many years ago) five or six drunken revelers were returning from the club at a very late hour, according to our provincial notions.

  26. Among the nettles and burdocks under the hurdle our revelers saw Lizaveta asleep.

  27. Comedy arose before tragedy, and was at first at the celebration of Dionysus by rustic revelers in the season of the vintage, in the form of songs and dances.

  28. Here the revelers had burlesqued Henriette as the "Woman of Sorrows," and here the guardsman had thrown off the chaplet and rebuked the crowd.

  29. The Feast of Reason included hundreds of revelers grouped around the open-air tables for the "supper of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," and between long lines of these they were obliged to pass.

  30. When a group of the revelers saluted them with enthusiasm, each returned a laughing acknowledgment, but without change of pose.

  31. The room was very quiet, for the revelers below were so far away they could not be heard.

  32. The press was worst on the corner, whither the revelers were streaming from three directions.

  33. This traditional "somebody" was now inspiring the revelers with fresh enthusiasm.

  34. The revelers come on foot, emerging from dark alleyways, descending from garrets by creaking old staircases, filtering out one by one into the street, and making their way to the ball-room in couples or alone.

  35. And that twenty feet packed tight with writhing, twisting, screaming revelers of Hallowe'en, the end of the Fair!

  36. Four policemen and a score of revelers closed it.

  37. Off to the right a group of thoughtless revelers were tearing up a hedge.

  38. On second thoughts he was glad such revelers were allowed upon the floor, since as the scene gradually began to affect him he felt it might be amusing for himself to dance once or twice before the evening ended.

  39. It is astonishing how sad these notorious revelers look in repose.

  40. Her first glimpses of the revelers filled her with repugnance and confirmed her in what she had heard and read of the wickedness of the rich.


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