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How to use orgy in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Orgy means a secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). Example: “Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order took place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.”

Examples of orgy by meaning

nounA secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and...

  • Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order took place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 39

nounAn instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity; spree.

  • Together they indulge in a veritable genealogical orgy.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 40
  • Gorea 07: 'OUR DEFENSES WERE USELESS AGAINST GOREA AS IT SWEPT THROUGH OUR EMPIRE IN AN ORGY OF ANNIHILATION.'2006 March 20, Nintendo Software Technology, Metroid Prime Hunters, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Logbook – Lore
  • It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry series always promised but never delivered.2010 January 16, Nick Gillett, “This week's games reviews”, in The Guardian

More sentences with orgy

  • Why would I allow a seasonal skunk orgy on my land, huh?2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (0:52 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by…. From the entry musky
  • This was a time of wild revelry, drunkardness, orgies, and merrymaking.2011, Richard ‘Bingy’ Brown, chapter 11, in Living the Dream, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry drunkardness
  • Gay couples who attend orgies together do so on average once every two months.2007 October 2, Mother Sunshine Naylor, “Study PROVES That Gay Men Cheat on Their Long-Term Sex Tricks”, in alt.politics.homosexuality…. From the entry orgy-goer
  • The greatest use of Cesium tonnage-wise is in the annual Cesium orgies sponsored by AMSWWBUW.2005 June 17, Me (originally by Cipher), “alt.cesium FAQ”, in alt.cesium (Usenet). From the entry AMSWWBUW
  • War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood.1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, chapter 17, in My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC. From the entry war
  • Action in Dionysian theatre always took place in a sacred context, which applied a fortiori to the Dionysian and Bacchantic orgies.2011, Johannes Ehrat, Power of Scandal: Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media, page 93. From the entry bacchantic
  • When they inevitably engage in a drunken orgy, one of the guys donkey punches the girl he's porking, killing her.2009 April 25, Kishin, “Donkey Punch”, in alt.horror (Usenet). From the entry donkey punches
  • Bathing in the river followed, culminating in love orgies, the preceding formalities being in a sense introductory stimulants.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 140. From the entry love orgy
  • Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 246. From the entry marge
  • Many a satisfactory jammy, sardiney orgy left its distended celebrants poorer in pocket certainly, but richer in cherished memories.1936, George Charles Beresford, Schooldays with Kipling, page 98. From the entry sardiney
  • The “Böser-Buben-Ball” is the orgy of our somewhat violently smart younger generation, of the high-spirited bookkeeperesses, other-esses, and bank boys.1929, Ludwig Hirschfeld, translated by T[homas] W. MacCallum, The Vienna That’s Not in the Baedeker, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 143. From the entry bookkeeperess
  • The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.1928, Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145. From the entry latrate
  • But Carême's creations, rather than proving the inherent artiness of food, seem rather to bespeak a jokish spectacularism in an orgy of conspicuous waste.2012, Steven Poole, You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture. From the entry jokish
  • We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies.2009, Okera H, Be Your Priority, Not His Option, Mill City Press, published 2009, page 45. From the entry nasty
  • Yeah GGs to all there. great fun as is the norm when we can all get in there and have a little orgy.2000 September 16, cheet, “GG'z at Pits RA3”, in alt.games.quake3 (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Apr 2026. From the entry ggs
  • It was filled with hard-core details on stuff from skinema to incest and orgies, and a lot of ministers were appalled by the handbook's contents.1975, New Times, Volume 4, volume 4, New Times Communications Corporation, page 8. From the entry skinema
  • Even for what it is, the music is badly performed, poorly recorded, and blottoed by a veritable orgy of editing and dial diddling.1967, Hi Fi/Stereo Review, volume 18, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 93. From the entry blotto
  • Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order too place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 39. From the entry black magical
  • A male Beatrice Fairfax, an orgy of moronicism and probably possesses as many listeners within its area as anything else on the air.1933 February 21, Sid [pseudonym; Sidne Silverman], “‘Voice of Experience’”, in Variety, volume 109, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Variety…. From the entry moronicism
  • Terry brings the detectives into the briefing room to instruct them on how to act at "adult parties." Jake jokes that those are usually referred to as orgies.2015, Janieretlaw, “No-Look Five”, in Brooklyn Nine-Nine Wiki. From the entry no-look
  • To players, this equates to smooth, stable and secure Internet-based gameplay with thousands of other Warcrafters, simultaneously, in that communal orgy of ogre-slaying way of MMORPGs.2004 September 3, The Palm Beach Post, volume 96, number 147, page 19. From the entry Warcrafter
  • Their appearance leads to an orgy of multitudinous fornications, a wild tumult of perversions and obscene interlacings which language is dislocated and fiercely fractured to express.1989, Contemporary literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative…. From the entry fecality
  • Tipsters are the camp-followers of every speculative orgy, living by their wits on scraps from roaring stock markets, making their get-away before the suckers can hit back.1933, Newsweek - Volume 1, page 23. From the entry camp follower
  • Again, the Trimalconian banquets of the rich, with their voluptuous foods and the tragalism of the orgies too often following are parallels to the crapulous tropes of the Soledades.1928, Elisha Kent Kane, Gongorism and the Golden Age. From the entry tragalism
  • The frenzied, suggestible, gregarious, subconscious self, freed from all rational restraints, celebrated its delirious orgies, its corybantic bacchanalia, held its mad salto mortale over the grave of crucified humanity.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry salto mortale

Meaning of orgy

  1. noun A secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
  2. noun A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
  3. noun An instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity; spree.

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Questions about orgy in a sentence

How do you use orgy in a sentence?
Orgy is used as a noun. For example: “Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order took place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.”
What is a short sentence with orgy?
“We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies.”
What does orgy mean?
Orgy means a secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).

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