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Six example sentences with cacophonous, each labelled with its topic.
The orchestra's warm-up is gloriously cacophonous, forty players tuning at once until the oboe finally silences them.
Music
The night market was cacophonous, with scooters, karaoke and three competing loudspeakers all fighting over one narrow lane.
Travel
The lobby chat turned cacophonous once six players unmuted at once, so the captain switched everyone to text.
Gaming
The chamber grew cacophonous as forty members shouted at once, and the speaker's gavel could barely be heard.
Politics
The arena turned cacophonous during the comeback, with horns, drums and twenty thousand voices drowning out the referee's whistle.
Basketball
A busy kitchen is cacophonous at eight o'clock, with timers, shouted orders and pans clattering onto the range.
Cooking
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