How to Use cacophonous in a Sentence

cacophonous

adjective
  • My heart was sinking, each string plucked again and again in cacophonous fury.
    — Trésor Prijs, Teen Vogue, 1 June 2018
  • My heart was sinking, each string plucked again and again in cacophonous fury.
    — Trésor Prijs, Teen Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • Their cacophonous mating song can drown out the noise of passing jets.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
  • Their cacophonous mating song can drown out the noise of passing jets.
    — Mark Kennedy, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2021
  • Simply setting down his amp was enough to elicit a cacophonous roar from the crowd.
    — Kelly Dearmore, Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2020
  • These cacophonous tones remind us that the real world, too, can be a ghastly farce.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The space was by turns eerily quiet and wildly cacophonous.
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Stage performers are used to a silence in their workspace, while bar singers thrive in a cacophonous racket.
    — Jimmy Buffett, Vanities, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Stage performers are used to a silence in their workspace, while bar singers thrive in a cacophonous racket.
    — Jimmy Buffett, vanityfair.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Here the prose is cacophonous and rude, fragmented by lists and quotations.
    — Danielle Dutton, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Inside a spaceship, though, their avatars jostled to see the screen amid cacophonous chatter.
    — Robin George Andrews, Wired, 15 May 2021
  • In its cacophonous surroundings, the White House stood serene.
    — Mark Puleo, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • His drums and strings are intermingled with roars and squeaks and bleeps, all orderly and not cacophonous.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Not the cacophonous boos to which the franchise was once accustomed, but boos nonetheless.
    — Bill Oram, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2017
  • The time has come to accept that one’s voice might be fractured, imperfect, cacophonous and a bit unhinged.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Then video culture further evolved into the cacophonous one of the internet.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • In time, the anthem was moved to the start of games, and the live band has given way to some lovely and some cacophonous performances.
    — Fay Vincent, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Eerily quiet at times, though a busload of pub-hoppers can take it from a quiet buzz to a cacophonous crowd in a heartbeat.
    — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 6 June 2018
  • There are the cacophonous stretches of cities and industries breathing and dumping their waste into the river.
    — Shreya Dasgupta, Quartz India, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Here, the city isn’t a backdrop, but the world’s greatest, gloriously cacophonous backup band.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • The open-cockpit biplane sliced into the brush, spun, and crashed to a cacophonous stop some 15 to 20 feet from the lake.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2021
  • As the boat passed a small island, an African fish eagle was seen nested near a cacophonous gathering of cormorants.
    — Benedict Moran, National Geographic, 7 May 2019
  • This is perhaps to be 'expected' from an arena as caustic, as cacophonous as Camp Nou.
    — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Jenkins and Britell don’t use cacophonous sounds to simply mirror the dread Cora begins to feel.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2021
  • Yet a cacophonous encore is now playing across the South after a Supreme Court ruling last week.
    — ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • The novel has been rightly praised as a masterwork of realism, and the scenes are cacophonous with noises and pungent with smells.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • There are eruptions of blood, sudden beheadings and long stretches of cacophonous clashing of metal weaponry.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The cluster of cacophonous cicadas in this area of the American South is known as brood IX.
    — NBC News, 24 May 2020
  • Tuesday evening’s event didn’t devolve into the chaos of a cacophonous debate last week but was far livelier than a relatively sleepy one last month.
    — Ben Paviour may 6, Sacbee.com, 6 May 2026
  • All of this, moreover, had to be done while wet laundry flapped on drying racks next door and amid the cacophonous outbursts of the Chinese workers hanging it.
    — Longreads, 15 May 2018

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