ORGY in a Sentence

Learn ORGY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

13 example sentences for ORGY, such as:

1. He had led the orgies at Carlton House.
2. Judges had been engaging in sexual orgies.
3. Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.
4. We'll keep them there all the time, and we'll hold our orgies there, too.
5. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORGY
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orgy
 n.  wild party involving excessive drinking; unrestrained indulgence; secret rite in the cults of ancient
Classic Sentence:
1  Completely surrounding the state capitol was a host of promoters, speculators, seekers after contracts and others hoping to profit from the orgy of spending, and many were growing shamelessly rich.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  There was an orgy of grabbing and over all there was a cold cynicism about open theft in high places that was chilling to contemplate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
3  So that we may say that Paris's great prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its stream of gold from full hands, its pomp, its luxury, its magnificence, is its sewer system.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
4  We'll keep them there all the time, and we'll hold our orgies there, too.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  Then he weaves along again, perfectly ca'm, and goes to dropping in his funeral orgies again every now and then, just like he done before.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
7  The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  He had led the orgies at Carlton House.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence:
1  Emperor Nero attended the bacchanalian orgy.
2  When her income tax refund check finally arrived, Sally indulged in an orgy of shopping.
3  That's why they're invited here this evenin'; but tomorrow we want ALL to come -- everybody; for he respected everybody, he liked everybody, and so it's fitten that his funeral orgies sh'd be public.
4  Judges had been engaging in sexual orgies.