How to Use cacophony in a Sentence

cacophony

noun

• The sounds of shouting added to the cacophony on the streets.
• But out of the cacophony needs to come a core of consensus.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• The saying her name was the creation of that cacophony of sound.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• As the pages turn, the sky lightens and more birds join in until the air rings with an avian cacophony.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• But the world is loud, and singling out the tune of one bird or whale from the cacophony is difficult.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Such a cacophony means that the reader keeps having to leaf back to make sense of the storyline.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• The cacophony of the city had died down and the insurance building next to the memorial had gone dark.
  — Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2019
• The video opens with a cacophony of clock chimes, church bells, loud ticking.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• The acoustics of the room amplify the breathy cacophony blowing from the four saxes on stage.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Their unified song takes over from the cacophony of a conscious brain, and the patient is out.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• The front tires leave the pavement and a cacophony of sand and rock collisions begins to echo through the cabin.
  — Karl Brauer, Robb Report, 17 May 2023
• The effect is a cacophony of sounds that can sound far away or near, above or below.
  — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2017
• Of course, there's also the pull back to the stressful cacophony of demands.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2018
• Their tight seal is secure enough to dull the cacophonies of a jackhammer on the street or a chainsaw in the backyard.
  — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
• After the final out, a cacophony of honking horns filled the air.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• Through the rapturous cacophony, the anthem could be made out here and there.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
• The fans know them by heart, sing in unison and generate a cacophony of noise.
  — Coy Wire and Vivien Jones, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• Filing past vacant chairs on the baseline, they were startled by a cacophony from above and to the right.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2021
• Baby sea turtles sprint across the beach, and the the forest echoes with the cacophony of exotic birds.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• Eat: Loud, crunchy foods to drown out the cacophony of voices.
  — Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023
• And amid the cacophony, such centrism can be quite lonely.
  — Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
• The air is filled with the cacophony of pounding hammers and morning traffic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• Their dialects, though not quite the same, will again fill the forest with a cacophony of parrot calls.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2020
• Blue jays and house sparrows add their voices to the constant cacophony.
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 May 2021
• Large players' photos were displayed along the way amid a cacophony of noise and cheers.
  — Jovana Gec, Fox News, 16 July 2018
• There’s not that cacophony of kids coming into the school.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2020
• The room burst into a cacophony of murmurs and chuckles.
  — Andrea Zelinski, ExpressNews.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• Amidst the cacophony, Wanda freaks out and her magic starts to choke all the people around her.
  — Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• The cacophony of Shahid’s cries and the cicada drone almost felled me.
  — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 8 Feb. 2018
• For sick patients being wheeled onto the floor for the first time, the cacophony can induce panic.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Apr 2024