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How to use boisterous in a sentence

22 example sentences · adjective

Boisterous means full of energy; exuberant; noisy. Example: “The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.”

Examples of boisterous by meaning

adjectiveFull of energy; exuberant; noisy.

  • The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Open-Type Coaches on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 135

More sentences with boisterous

  • The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.From the entry taciturn
  • I can hear a swell of laughter and boisterous merriment in Inuktitut.2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), page 46. From the entry Inuktitut
  • These pubs were no longer the boisterous, noisy, and often “bloodhouses” of old.2017, Steve Langley, Erskineville to the Bush, BookVenture Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry bloodhouse
  • Tabitha's wedding day ended in a boisterous skimelton party, a kind of local charivari.2013, Anya Seton, Dragonwyck, page 185. From the entry skimelton
  • "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."2005 October 31, The Times, London. From the entry badinage
  • He said a boisterous “Open, sesame” and the door swung wide.2000, Jeffery Deaver, The Empty Chair, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry open, sesame
  • The fur seals can at first sight be confused with the more boisterous Galápagos sea lions.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 34. From the entry Galapagos sea lion
  • New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.2015, Michael Pierson, “Stephen Spaulding's Fourth of July in New Orleans”, in Slap, Andrew L., Towers, Frank, editors, Confederate…. From the entry sporting
  • Catatonia could always count on a place in the gossip columns, too, thanks to the lagered-up antics of their boisterous lead-singer-about-town.2003, Peter Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock. From the entry lagered up
  • Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 111. From the entry reel
  • The Earthlings mixed with their Tymbrimi allies down near the refreshment tables, making a boisterous high time of it.1987, David Brin, “The Uplift War”, in Earthclan (Uplift series; 3), Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., →ISBN, page 495. From the entry atrichic
  • In a montage that is equal parts boisterous and horrifying, an upbeat tune plays as they pass the embalmed hand around like a blunt.2023 September 1, Molly Kusilka, “In ‘Talk to Me,’ Possession is a Deadly Addiction”, in Filmdaze, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2023. From the entry pass around like a blunt
  • Foy had prepped his troops for a boisterous chorus of “We Shall Overcome.” They were joined together arm-in-arm, swaying and humming slowly to the beat.2015, Paul Beatty, chapter 23, in The Sellout, New York: Macmillan. From the entry arm in arm
  • His housekeeper Maria, however, takes a very dim view of all his revellry, and finally after a particularly boisterous thrash she puts her foot down.1984, Software Projects, Jet Set Willy (video game's printed instructions). From the entry thrash
  • It grows so well that a passer-by, concerned about my boisterous crop of dandelions, once suggested I use her landscaping crew to corral my wild patch.2019 April 26, Ronda Kaysen, “I'm Done Mowing My Lawn”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry like a champ
  • De Koog De Koog's main drag, Dorpstraat, Texel's tourist haven, is lined with cheap chipperies, bistros of uncertain provenance and the island's only concentration of boisterous bars.2016, Lonely Planet The Netherlands. From the entry chippery
  • Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting: a boisterous pub, perhaps, as the program note suggested.2008 June 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Can We Talk? Lively Musical Conversations, With a Contemporary Slant”, in New York Times. From the entry concertato
  • Although it is not a boisterous or brawly bar, there is a constant flow of noises from the television, the jukebox, the pool table, pinball machine, and telephone.1974, James Michael Brady, Bookmaking: The Sociology of an Illegal Occupation, page 70. From the entry brawly
  • Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University…. From the entry pickyness
  • It has given birth to boisterous palm pounders, tin-sheet shakers and shillabers on the right hand, and to nose wrinklers, tongue stickers and loud sneezers on the left.1921, George Jean Nathan, The theatre, the drama, the girls, page 86. From the entry wrinkler
  • Suddenly a peal of thunder, resonant even above the din of the swinish revelry, clave the very roof and laid a hush of feat upon the boisterous company.1917, H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb. From the entry clave

Meaning of boisterous

  1. adjective Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.
  2. adjective Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.
  3. adjective Having or resembling animalic exuberance.

Full definition of boisterous

Questions about boisterous in a sentence

How do you use boisterous in a sentence?
Boisterous is used as an adjective. For example: “The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.”
What is a short sentence with boisterous?
“Sarah reels a little, nevertheless, under the dog's boisterous greeting.”
What does boisterous mean?
Boisterous means full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

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