CAROUSE in a Sentence

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While this conversation was passing in the chamber, Legree, overcome with his carouse, had sunk to sleep in the room below.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAROUSE
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carouse
 n.  revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
 v.  engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
Classic Sentence:
1  While this conversation was passing in the chamber, Legree, overcome with his carouse, had sunk to sleep in the room below.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  The night after Tom's body had been carried away, he rode to the next town for a carouse, and had a high one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  When they had brought her to the Hall the maiden was placed in an upper chamber, while Hugo and his friends sat down to a long carouse, as was their nightly custom.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
4  My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
5  He might be well-to-do, they say; but he carouses too much in Albany.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  The next Legree heard of his mother was, when, one night, as he was carousing among drunken companions, a letter was put into his hand.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Windows were rattling, shutters flapping, and wind carousing, rumbling, and tumbling down the chimney, and, every once in a while, puffing out smoke and ashes, as if a legion of spirits were coming after them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to gossip in drawing rooms of the club, from gossip to carousals and women; from carousals back to gossip, reading, and wine.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
9  Pierre received him unwillingly at first, but got used to him after a while, sometimes even accompanied him on his carousals, and gave him money under the guise of loans.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI
10  War between England and France was talked of as near and certain, and the jolly sailors were having a carousal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
Example Sentence:
1  What do you do when an obstreperous horde of drunken policemen goes carousing through your hotel, crashing into potted plants and singing vulgar songs?.