Loud confusing disagreeable sounds

Usage examples of cacophony.

The ruins of the Agora had saddened him, but this new Athens was a cacophony of color and sound that surpassed imagination.

Council on Bioethics, I was confident that a sensible and a sensitive policy might evolve from what was sure to be a cacophony of voices of scientists and philosophers representing a spectrum of opinions, beliefs and intellectual backgrounds.

To mask the sound of her voice, Fiamma reached forwards and turned on the hot tap which, being connected to the dodgy StregaSchloss plumbing, obliged with a cacophony of splutters and clanks before it disgorged a gout of peat-stained water,no Im not breaking up, its just my mud bath, she continued.

A hundred different manically cheerful tunes sounded from a hundred engines and organs, an unsettling cacophony that ebbed and flowed around them.

And does he really want a rock band adding to the nightly cacophony in Marchant Road?

Indeed the roar increased steadily, soon peaking in a cacophony of feminine screams.

In the cacophony of negative television ads and sniping by critics, foes are raising doubts about the Clinton plan faster than the President and Hillary Rodham Clinton can explain it.

Moon shrank back, felt Gundhalinu recoil beside her, as the cacophony shattered senses attuned to the fragile silence of the snow.

Can perfect synchrony emerge from a cacophony of thousands of mindless metronomes?

Under the brassy cacophony, Sharina heard the faint, rhythmic music of a double flute being played in the stern of each vessel, marking time for the rowers.

The Mustee, at an hour past noon, was at its most crowded, with heavily laden camels pressing stolidly through the throng, and the shouts of the veiled women selling oranges rising in jarring cacophony over the song of the rat catcheron whose broad-brimmed hat six trained examples of his prey, each wearing a little hat of its own, formed a pyramidand the yells of the fish and milk vendors and the chanted prayers of the beggars.

The cacophony of chatter died immediately as the queen, the High Priestess, and the High Procuress entered the royal enclosure.

A chorus of crickets kicked off all around them, a trilling cacophony rising in an asynchronous wall of sound.

It seemed even less like the Brythonic that Guiwenneth spoke, more of a combination of vaguely recognizable words, and woodland, animal sounds, much clicking, whistling, yapping, a cacophony to which Guiwenneth responded totally in kind.

With a cakey dryness about the lips, the sweetness of cotton candy filming her teeth, numb to cacophony and in her element, little Linds saw out of the corner of her eye a switched-on filament of stilted brilliance in the no-color sky, heard mobbed shrieks out of tenor with the cries of thrillseekers.