How to Use boisterous in a Sentence

boisterous

adjective
  • A large and boisterous crowd attended the concert.
  • 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
  • In this splendor the birds are boisterous, as are the people.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 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
  • The first evening is boisterous and rowdy, thanks in part to the blues music played by the twins’ cousin Sammie Moore (Miles Caton).
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The ideas and the substance, the cartoons and the asides, were served with a huge dollop of Bill Buckley’s boisterous spirit.
    — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 11 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • That may be the real one to test and get a more palatable taste of MSI’s boisterous designs.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 10 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Both of the aforementioned, and a whole lot of boisterous beauty trends that, at the very least, gave us a distraction from the state of the world.
    — Cazzie David, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2018
  • Her follow-up, Do This For Me, is so alive and so boisterous that the characters just about bounce off the page.
    — Team Marie Claire, Marie Claire, 6 July 2018
  • Their six-man tag-team brawls fired up already-boisterous wrestling crowds on the weekends.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The crowd started out big and boisterous, but midway through his 90-minute speech, the gas was running low.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2019
  • The room was loud and boisterous, but Perri wasn’t rattled.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The crowd in the hallway after the verdict was boisterous but not unruly.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Away from the boisterous tourist corridor of Cabo is the serene and exclusive East Cape.
    — Alesandra Dubin, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Bao Li, the boisterous male, has strong links to the nation’s capital.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But outside the event space a more boisterous crowd cheered, waved flags and signs and bought Trump merchandise.
    — Jessie Van Berkel, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Robb Report was on hand for the boisterous event, which brought in over $12.6 million, despite no one taking home the headline lot.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 May 2025

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