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Example sentences for "boisterous"

Lexicographically close words:
boiling; boilings; boils; boire; boisson; boisterously; boistrous; boit; boite; boith
  1. As I did so Ponto bounded in past me, gave two or three short, glad barks, and then paid his boisterous respects to the family in the sitting-room.

  2. Elsa shivered and shrank before Aurora's boisterous high spirits and the look of contempt the elder girl bestowed upon her plain attire.

  3. She had hated his rude boisterous ways and the sound of his voice, with its sudden changes from a deep bass to a squeaking falsetto.

  4. But courage, old lass, I hope to see thee soon within a biscuit’s toss of the merry land, riding snugly at anchor in some green cove, and sheltered from the boisterous winds.

  5. There are men remarkable for their stores of boisterous animalism, no less than delicate scholars remarkable only for the brightness of their fancy and the vividness of their dreams.

  6. But how they pained you with their jests; how they bruised you in their boisterous play; how old they looked to your young eyes; how full of wiles and intrigue and savagery!

  7. Jimmie came stamping in one wild boisterous evening when February had began to shout across the country from hill to hill and turn the world into a whirling whiteness.

  8. Sport, who had succeeded in putting the cows into their places, came bounding up in a fit of boisterous familiarity, and leaped at the little black ball with a gay, "Woof!

  9. A boisterous braggart, filled with contempt for the rest of the world, he despised the entire universe from the height of his ignorance.

  10. The majesty of the people is adequately represented from a humoristic standpoint by Pugin and Rowlandson, as it might have appeared on its septennial returns in the boisterous eighteenth century.

  11. After being frozen up and snowed under, during a very bitter and boisterous January, we at last got to sea, and soon ran into warmer weather.

  12. Their captain was as delighted as his men at their safe return, although his satisfaction was expressed in less boisterous fashion.

  13. If the first it would mean a boisterous shout to the men above and a hasty and joyful scramble out of their prison.

  14. He grew so boisterous at last that orders were given for his removal, but at the first intimation he uttered a doleful howl.

  15. We are in the midst of a dark boisterous sea; over us, a dense, grey, cold sky.

  16. The evening was very stormy: deep clouds had covered the Organ Mountains; and vivid lightning, sharp rain, and boisterous wind, had threatened the fazenda with a night of terror.

  17. There was something far more touching in the quiet and reverent solemnity of the spectators yesterday than in the slightly boisterous joviality of the peasantry last year.

  18. We had just sent down the top-gallant yards, and had made all snug for a boisterous winter's night.

  19. I shall try still, but I can't get her to take interest in anything but the boisterous side of emancipation.

  20. A steep glen to the left sends down a boisterous stream to the Vedra.

  21. On the day fixed for our departure from Boulogne, the weather being boisterous and wind contrary, the Packet could not sail, and we trusted ourselves to a small vessel, with only one effective sailor on board.

  22. It led us sometimes along the brink of precipices, and always far above the boisterous river.

  23. At one moment the fort door flings wide with a rush of frost like smoke clouds, and in stamps Godefroy, shaking snow off with boisterous noise and vowing by the saints that the drifts are as high as the St. Pierre's deck.

  24. We got into hiding of a thicket, but boisterous shouting came from the Indian encampment.

  25. The Senate was getting more boisterous each minute.

  26. And I protest against this boisterous and unlawful interruption," retorted the consul, fiercely.

  27. Every window was crowded with rank and beauty, witnessing the gambols of the merry children or the boisterous recreations of the populace.

  28. But if we would perceive the full figure of the man this time of boisterous political warfare is of no mean account.

  29. From the solemnities of the Dedication we come to the "humming deal of satire," and the boisterous action, of the play itself.

  30. The former boisterous laughter of the wedding-party at the groomsman's jokes was heard ringing through the woods no more.

  31. And shall it be generally said, and Miss Howe not be an exception to it (as you once wrote), that our sex are best dealt with by boisterous and unruly spirits?

  32. I told him, I by no means approved of his violent temper: he was too boisterous a man for my liking.

  33. The steamer's deck soon swarmed with some four hundred of the roughest and most boisterous men he had ever seen, and the air was filled with coarse and profane language, while a tendency to fight was exhibited by several of them.

  34. Because I could not join in their rude sports and boisterous merriment, they attributed my reserve and visible dejection to sinister causes--possibly to some horrible and undiscovered crime.

  35. The twelve Israelitish families of Togarog found sufficient relaxation and entertainment in their own circle, and did not in the least yearn after the boisterous and uncivil companionship of Russian moujiks.

  36. From shop to shop they went, becoming more hilarious, more boisterous as they proceeded.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boisterous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.