How to Use riotous in a Sentence

riotous

adjective
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  • Think of the riotous calamity of two weeks in the dark.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
  • Not that he is put off by more riotous or raunchy scenes.
    — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The most riotous season is spring, when many of the plants are in bloom and dripping with color.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The crowd lined the trees as the first really riotous dance party erupted in front of the Blue stage.
    — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
  • The event ended, deplorably, in a riotous melee that police had to break up.
    — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Their riotous flavor of punk/rock is strong and best listened to with the window rolled down.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 6 July 2017
  • In a riotous bit, Phil (Norman) and Gil (Walker) strut on stage.
    — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The judge said the video belied the notion that Angeli was not part of the riotous entrance into the Capitol.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Skaters buzzed all over Pier 76 and contributed to the show’s riotous finale.
    — New York Times, 15 Sep. 2021
  • But there was little of the riotous opulence for which the restaurant is known.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 19 May 2021
  • The banana split cream pie is a riotous medley of flavors.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The banana split cream pie is a riotous medley of flavors.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Stonewall and this parade represent the phase of the fight when niceties were put aside and progress was sought through riotous battle.
    — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
  • The film is a riotous ode to a musician who broke barriers in more ways than one.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The leather version was a shade of shiny, riotous red rarely seen on anything but fire trucks or Michael Jackson.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
  • The riotous Marmont Fringe Brooch from the same collection?
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Not the riotous cheers of American consumers dancing in the streets.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 12 July 2024
  • The panel has laid out the factual groundwork that shows Trump and some of his acolytes set the stage for and encouraged the riotous mob.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2022
  • The practice has taken on a life of its own in my big, riotous Irish Catholic family.
    — New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • After so many months spent in quarantine, Friedberg is ready to bring her riotous show to stages across the pond.
    — Kat Bein, SPIN, 25 May 2022
  • The area was once a riotous tangle of green trees and rare plants that more closely resembled a forest than a desert.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The movie’s in riotous color, the TV set was black and white, and still little Marty was pulled into the vortex of its strangeness.
    — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Quan said, opening his speech to riotous applause and cheers from the audience.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • No one really knows, and that’s part of BookTok’s riotous charm.
    — Chelsea G. Summers, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The riotous buzzing filled our old farmhouse in Northern Virginia.
    — Washington Post, 11 May 2021
  • From this riotous polyphony of fashion, one look stood out to me (and still does): a man in a black mesh top, black leather loafers, and black Givenchy sunglasses.
    — Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • The princess often mentions social events, which sound just as riotous as those depicted in The Crown.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2019
  • The Texan’s earthy folk, blues and gospel songs are at home amid the riotous laughter of children and the content murmur of picnickers.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity, 19 June 2018
  • Covered in a riotous mix of pale lichens and deep-green moss, the tree’s flaky bark is marred by a long, electric-blue slash of spray paint running across one side of its wide trunk.
    — Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Centuries later, after the Romans took over, the new regime continued this tradition, adding the envy of the Greeks to the hatred of the Egyptians, stirring up a riotous stew.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024

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