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How to use rowdy in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective, noun

Rowdy means loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous. Example: “I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.”

Examples of rowdy by meaning

nounA boisterous person; a brawler.

  • Carpenter recruited his gang at the saloon, rowdies all.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 164

More sentences with rowdy

  • I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.From the entry civilization
  • Gary was a hulking meathead who, when he wasn't playing football, was either hunting, fishing or getting drunk and rowdy in some topless bar.From the entry meathead
  • He played the straitlaced partner of the rowdy hero, always nagging him about paperwork and protocol.2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 164. From the entry straitlaced
  • The station was half deserted, half rowdy, several fellows were drunk, shouting and crowing.1922, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 6, in Aaron’s Rod, London: Martin Secker, page 69. From the entry bowels
  • It is big, cheerful, slightly hokey, and it offers fine, rowdy food and margueritas the size of birdbaths.1984, Skiing, volume 37, number 4, page 110. From the entry marguerita
  • Play rowdy records at them, or something.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 270. From the entry whoop it up
  • Pushing her sonic palate even further, "Darkside Of Dallas" features live instrumentation and vocals by rowdy Aussie punks and former tourmates Ground Components.2007, CMJ New Music Monthly (Jan-Feb 2007, number 145, page 14). From the entry tourmate
  • It was all very good-humoured and traditional, relatively tasteful and undrunken, with less rowdy vulgarity than you often find at such an event in Britain.1987, John Ardagh, Katharina Ardagh, Germany and the Germans. From the entry undrunken
  • From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187. From the entry soughing
  • People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry courtier
  • Apparent on this disc is the problem that plagues every recording of the score: Without an audience full of rowdy geeks screaming out callbacks, Rocky Horror feels incomplete.2004, Michael Portantiere, The Theatermania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings, page 310. From the entry callback
  • In fact, he walked out of Cambridge but would probably have been sent down had he continued his rowdy carrying on with such disreputable young men as Malcolm Lowry.1998,The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life, by Judith M. Heimann, page 3. From the entry carrying-on
  • Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rowdy of the Cross L. From the entry anathematize
  • They mussed up my hair again.” (laughter) “"Aw, my hairdo ain't purdy."” (laughter) “Sorry about the rowdy customers, but what can I do?” “Just keep helping me up, I guess.”2017 September 11, Brian Boyle, “West to Mexico” (4:27 from the start), in American Dad!, season 14, episode 22, spoken by Francine Smith…. From the entry mussed up
  • Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward.2012 October 4, Jon Caramanica, “Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry drill

Meaning of rowdy

  1. adjective Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
  2. noun A boisterous person; a brawler.
  3. noun Money; ready money.

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Questions about rowdy in a sentence

How do you use rowdy in a sentence?
Rowdy is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.”
What is a short sentence with rowdy?
“Play rowdy records at them, or something.”
What does rowdy mean?
Rowdy means loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.

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