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unpleasantly loud and harsh- ] Their song is charming —a bit raucous perhaps, but it does have charm!Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros
- Raising raucous cries, the crows soar down to all parts of the city like dive bombers.Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
- The sea outside was a raucous blue, dusted with tiny whitecaps.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- Dimly he heard Saphira bugle and the warriors cheering raucously around them.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- He played guitar in a garage band—at the school's annual talent show, they played a raucous take on "House of the Rising Sun.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- When the raucous scream of a seagull woke her, Hilde got out of bed.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- They left the lazy, insect-humming air of the bayou behind and landed in bustling, raucous New Orleans.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- Vera said with a raucous laugh: "Cold?Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
- By the time she made it to the Great Hall, it was raucous with a few thousand Circlers.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- There came another flash of trumpets and a raucous sound upon the air.Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber
- And he felt like a mother seal, yes, a mother, not some raucous coughing bull or whatever the male is called—he would have to look it up.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- I think about all that great early punk and the raucous paintings I used to do.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- Their racy humor, raucous laughter, and breezy, unearned intimacy with me make me a little nervous.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- Dunbar shouted at him emphatically in a voice rising clearly above the raucous commotion.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Helen burst into a raucous angry laugh, looking at his sullen face, and prodding him roughly with her big fingers.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- He is so much like me when I was ten, so unlike our Mitt, whom Lelia and my father and I let raucously trample over all our custom and ceremony.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- His deep, raucous voice had thrilled them as it uttered the word of belief and submission.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- Enormous buildings stretched to the sky in the distance while raucous traffic whizzed through Greenwich Village streets.Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
- The wind blew from off the water to the northwest and swept raucously down Hill Street.David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
- As they were making a way round the raucous tables Turner saw a naval party coming along the front and stopped to watch.Ian McEwan -- Atonement