Sample sentences for CACOPHONY

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Definition

loud confusing disagreeable sounds

cacophony = combination of loud confusing disagreeable sounds

a cacophony of different musical styles — each trying to play louder than the other
...the cacophony of children's voices, thousands of them at play, splashing in the river and shrieking with innocent laughter.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

cacophony = loud confusing sounds

Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds

His harsh voice cut through the cacophony of the attack.
Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies

cacophony = loud noises

He was suddenly assailed by a bewildering cacophony of voices.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan

cacophony = combination of loud confusing disagreeable sounds

His howl touched off a chorus of screams and cries chat rivaled the cacophony outside the bus.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death

cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds

cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds

It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

cacophony = loud confusing disagreeable sounds

But a cacophony filled Maryse's mind, the psychic echo of their shock and horror.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
A weird cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar with laughter.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
How well they both hid the cacophony life wrote in their bones.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
She saw Mama, sitting on a blanket, a cacophony of color that covered an acre in zigzag rows.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
I was afraid they might wake the grove and drown us in a cacophony of prophecies, bad jokes, and infomercials.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Every sunrise and every sunset the bird songs were near-deafening: a diurnal cacophony of notes clear and limpid, bizarre and unmelodious.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
In the background, she could hear music blaring and the cacophony of a hundred conversations.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
The roar of activity increased, a cacophony of shouts and whistles and jeers and laughing.
James Dashner -- The Kill Order
Tin horns were added to the cacophony.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
And he could almost hear all of them together, drifting through the hotel and making a graceful cacophony.
Stephen King -- The Shining
They opened it and found themselves standing at the junction of two corridors, bathed in a cacophony of monkey cries.
Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone

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