How to Use boisterous in a Sentence

boisterous

adjective
  • A large and boisterous crowd attended the concert.
  • Have loud and boisterous music or noise on the beach or in your room.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Trump plans to fly in and out of these states to hold boisterous rallies.
    — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 31 May 2018
  • When Irene asks, isn’t that rather boisterous?
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Their throats may have been boisterous, singing loud and long, but their eyes were shot with worry.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Tyla’s year has been boisterous and big.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
  • With each score, the Trojans grew more boisterous on the pool deck.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
  • In this splendor the birds are boisterous, as are the people.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Even amid the more boisterous parts of the track, the speakers pick out the subtleties.
    — PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
  • Big and boisterous, this adorable ball of energy just can’t get enough love.
    — sacbee, 27 Oct. 2017
  • There are rules to follow, a mind to keep quiet even if a boisterous house swirls around you.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 28 May 2026
  • Soon enough, the band was caught on top of the tables as the boisterous crowd cheered for an encore.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Stone beat Philipp Grubauer on the glove side to hush what had been a boisterous crowd.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • Their six-man tag-team brawls fired up already-boisterous wrestling crowds on the weekends.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The track is a boisterous pop-rock tune led by punchy piano, rich horn stabs, and sliced through with sparkling synths.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2021
  • In the corner of the yard, the rooster is crowing away in boisterous voice.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The bar queues remain orderly, the chat is boisterous, but body odour is now rife.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • From a stage set up at the south end of the Park, speakers at times stirred the crowd to boisterous cheers.
    — Eric Adler, Mara Rose Williams and The New York Times, kansascity, 24 Mar. 2018
  • But the most boisterous crowd response came soon after those young trumpeters took the stage.
    — New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Keep track of your tone while Mercury squares off with boisterous Jupiter.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Hustlers is her movie and a boisterous, whip-smart moment for the crime-caper genre.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The boisterous crowds during the sumo watch parties.
    — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • Castillo, loud and boisterous, is an old-school offensive line coach to the core.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Moira tried the door handle, tugging it abruptly so that the door opened and boisterous wet night rushed in.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • But the boisterous birds already have sharp talons and beaks, so the banding process was handled with care.
    — Mike Householder, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • The boisterous fan favourites might thrive in the welcome-back spotlight while quieter types shy away.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • As the evening progressed — and the wine flowed — the room became boisterous and convivial.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2026
  • The boisterous protests helped spur the council to take another look.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Felt like a boisterous family reunion, but very fun to get to direct that kind of scene.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
  • At one point, a boisterous crew heads into the ocean, with someone dipping the cup into the drink.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024

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