Definition of REVEL

Synonyms for revel

Synonyms: Verb

Synonyms: Noun

Examples of revel in a Sentence

Verb

reveling all night is not conducive to a productive next day at work

Noun

in Finland, Midsummer Day ushers in a nationwide revel as the Finns celebrate the endless hours of sunlight with bonfires and parties

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb

Mainstream American superhero humor, though, tends to be less about deflating superhero tropes, and more about reveling in them. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "The best superhero stories admit that superheroes are ridiculous," 11 July 2018 Despite reveling in juvenile humor and copious pop-culture references, Deadpool 2 is trying to be about something: kindness. — Joshua Rivera, GQ, "Deadpool 2 Review: It Spends Too Much Time Getting Itself Off," 19 May 2018 But that didn't stop Kimmel from reveling in the news Monday of Hannity's relationship with Cohen. — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, "'Hannity Insanity': Watch late night TV hosts rejoice in Cohen client revelation," 17 Apr. 2018 The act of reveling in or revolting against the absence of Mr. Giamatti or the inclusion of Mr. Allen. — New York Times, "The Politics of Waxing," 26 Mar. 2018 Nothing stops the internet from reveling in a sad-looking, meme-able photo. — Ashley Hoffman, Time, "#SadBrandon Is the Saddest Sad Celebrity Meme Ever," 8 Mar. 2018 Drawing weapons from their coats, contemporaneous news reports said, the gunmen shot out the nightclub’s lights and then trained their fire on the reveling members of a drug gang called the Arellano Félix organization. — Alan Feuer, New York Times, "7 Tons of Cocaine in Jalapeño Cans: The Evidence Against El Chapo," 10 Apr. 2018 Meanwhile, those who own luxury investments can revel in their relative staying power. — Avantika Chilkoti, WSJ, "The Best Investments of 2018? Art, Wine and Cars," 31 Dec. 2018 The Palladinos revel in the quietly revolutionary, whether tackling the surprisingly chipper aftermath of Lorelai Gilmore's teen pregnancy, or the boys' club of 1950s comedy. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," 9 Dec. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

India has a populist leader happy to interfere with the central bank, China has ditched term limits to make its Communist leadership even more dictatorial than usual and the Philippine president revels in rejecting fetters on extrajudicial killing. — James Mackintosh, WSJ, "Investor Lessons From Turkey’s Crash to Earth," 14 Aug. 2018 Sunset Overdrive is a big, dumb, fast shooter that knows its place in the big, dumb gaming pantheon and, quite frankly, revels in it. — Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, "Sunset Overdrive review: Ride the rails to kaboom-town (finally on PCs, too)," 17 Nov. 2018 This is a club that knows its past, that revels in its traditions, ‘a grand old team to play for and a grand old team to support’, as the song goes. — SI.com, "Why Everton Must Learn From Their History in Next Managerial Appointment or Be Doomed to Repeat it," 18 May 2018 In the midst of our jet lag revel, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto happened to saunter in with a delegation from Japan, including a representative of the fugu industry. — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, "Hong Kong Foodie," 1 Nov. 2012 Ant-Man and the Wasp revels in wringing joy from mundane items—a giant salt shaker is a weapon in one scene, as is an inflated Hello Kitty Pez dispenser in another. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "Ant-Man and the Wasp," 5 July 2018 Director-choreographer John Vaughan’s season-opening production revels in the essential goofiness of this musical that wraps nearly two dozen of the group’s tunes around a story of an island wedding and the bride-to-be’s search for her mystery dad. — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Moonlight brings the fizz and fun to ABBA-centric 'Mamma Mia!'," 16 June 2018 An immigration hardliner and county official in northern Virginia, Stewart champions preserving Virginia’s Confederate monuments and revels in personal attacks on other politicians — Republican and Democrats alike. — Washington Post, "Little-known Virginia Republicans vying for US Senate shot," 9 June 2018 The author, a scholar of linguistics, revels in the minutiae of spelling, grammar, and usage, and her love of our living, changing language is infectious. — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, "Briefly Noted," 6 June 2018

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