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How to use riotous in a sentence

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We took a boat down the river Thames complete with riotous commentary from the ship's captain.
The union leader observed that students had lost support and favour from members of the public as a result of their riotous and unruly behaviour.
But it was so colorful, so riotous, so hilarious a solidarity that its ostentatious fusions established a special art form.
His deranged face was partly obscured by his untrimmed hair, revealing his riotous nature.
Let's hope we can all finish this grim year off with a huge riotous belly laugh.
Actual breaches of the peace include riotous and unlawful assemblies, riots, affrays, forcible entry and detainer, etc.
Don stood in the centre of what had become a riotous assembly, grinning sheepishly, enjoying the pats on the back.
On Saturday night, after the match, they tried desperately to be invisible as the riotous celebration party began.
The riotous crowd around him swept him along through arcane underground tunnels to a vaulted hall.
That, in turn, leads to rumbustious popular numbers, dances and choruses, notably a riotous rumba.
Television covered vitriolic exchanges between politicians, and riotous confrontations on the streets.
When the wind came roaring across, he could hear in broken waves of sound the riotous blare of the instruments.
Opening the new season on January 27 is That'll be the Day, a riotous romp through the golden age of rock 'n' roll.
Major economical upheaval caused a riotous outcry from the public for a more efficient government and less waste.
Instead of ancient Persia, the action here is set in contemporary New York already overrun with riotous violence.
In 99 Cent, the store bins filled with candy and cookies are ablaze with a riotous display of buy-me colors.
He's a decent, hard-working guy who's still got that riotous honky cat spirit lurking in his diva soul.
The contrasting riotous oddball farce and the blood-soaked political thriller could hardly be more different.
His London gigs are particularly riotous affairs, I remark, and am rewarded with a proper beaming smile.
But in the museum a colorful, riotous, unrestrained assemblage of ideas is on display.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In all that riot of blondness and sparkle and youth, just as riotous, just as lovely, a streak of gray hair!
The cross was among them the punishment for riotous slaves or their instigators.
The riotous preparations and annunciatory yells had died away to an intimate murmur of conversation.
Query, Is this not encouraging the Inhabitants in their licentious and riotous disposition?
It seemed as though a thousand riotous misfortunes were buffeting their hearts.
Flushed with victory, the troops were found riotous and disorderly.
Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deepshaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.
Hemming plunged into an orgie of riotous living when you refused him.
In the 1850s and 1860s, riotous and refractory pauper girls disturbed workhouses, prisons and reformatories in England, Ireland and Australia.
So in the end he grew worse, and at length died, a lesson to all riotous livers.
The houses of ill fame were riotous with men let loose upon a holiday.
He had spent his days in what might be termed, biblically, riotous living.
A national park is an island of safety in this riotous world.
Try a riotous mix of silver and gold, faux snow, and ornaments, all crowned by a pompom wreath.
You can't have wasted very much in riotous living on this sand-heap.
Blackberry shrub, to their minds, was the medium of riotous dissipation.
Mrs. mussel gets five of it and the rest I may waste in riotous living.
Nothing was said for some moments, while a succession of riotous waves rolled by, which by one of those occasional caprices of the seas were tumbling, not heaving it.
Following Toye's guilty plea to a charge of riotous behaviour, defence barrister Michael Boyd told Belfast Magistrates' Court it was a brief act of senselessness.
Brooke and Ned the other, while Fred Vaughn, the riotous twin, did his best to upset both by paddling about in a wherry like a disturbed water bug.
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