How to Use boisterous in a Sentence

boisterous

adjective
  • A large and boisterous crowd attended the concert.
  • In this splendor the birds are boisterous, as are the people.
    New York Times, 17 Feb. 2021
  • There’s no studio audience for the day’s shoot, so the crew is filling in with boisterous feedback after every punch line.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The pandemic has curtailed big, boisterous gatherings in sports bars or with family and friends at home.
    New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The event was disrupted midway through when a small group of virus skeptics who had joined the crowd grew boisterous and demanded that people stop wearing masks.
    Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
  • During normal times, the narrow, homespun dining room at Lilly's can be as boisterous as a dining hall.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
  • My competition did not, and proceeded to be boisterous and overbearing, which made the customer cringe.
    Heather R Morgan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In the past half-century, just three people have held the seat representing this lovely, boisterous city in Congress.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • His book is filled with entertaining-to-read and entertaining-to-consider recipes like this one that echo his unstoppably boisterous shows.
    Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Tully fits squarely in Heigl's wheelhouse, a boisterous and driven woman who is always the leader, never the follower.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
  • And his boisterous personality helped with his earliest business ventures.
    Sahra Ali, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Both in appearance and personality, the women possess an unmistakable likeness: long dark hair, deep brown eyes and boisterous natures.
    Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Inside the House chamber, lawmakers took their oaths of office and voted for speaker in small groups, rather than all together in the normally boisterous hall of the House.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Stone beat Philipp Grubauer on the glove side to hush what had been a boisterous crowd.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • 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
  • With each score, the Trojans grew more boisterous on the pool deck.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2021
  • Winds will turn to come from the west late as the front passes and remain quite boisterous. Snow!
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The remark drew a roomful of boisterous cheers at New York’s The Odeon restaurant.
    Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 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
  • 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 trailer cuts to a dinner party with a grown-up, boisterous Cary.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The music is boisterous, the servers move quickly, the banquettes are close together and the plates are meant to be shared.
    Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Their six-man tag-team brawls fired up already-boisterous wrestling crowds on the weekends.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Away from the boisterous tourist corridor of Cabo is the serene and exclusive East Cape.
    Alesandra Dubin, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • This calls for a boisterous family meal where the food is hearty, the jokes a little off-color, and the laughter flows as freely as the wine.
    Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • At the courthouse, Jackson is known for her boisterous laugh and down-to-earth demeanor.
    Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Las Vegas is a city where a great night out can involve a big and boisterous restaurant with a scene.
    Andy Wang, Robb Report, 21 June 2022
  • But people who knew him then recall a boisterous, bighearted student at the center of Yale’s social life.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

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