Sample Sentences forboisterous (auto-selected)
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School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. (source)boisterous = noisy and unrestrained
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But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. (source)
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Peeves seemed to be bouncing along the corridor in boisterous good spirits, laughing his head off.† (source)
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Her boisterous laughter vibrated in the room.† (source)
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But boisterous as it was, the sound was friendly.† (source)
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The rain outside rose in pitch, and the bistro grew more boisterous.† (source)
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Too many boisterous laughs and overly enthusiastic greetings.† (source)
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Lotte was enchanted by their one-year-old, Felix, who hopped around boisterously to the music.† (source)
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She sternly repressed a tendency to boisterousness when she reflected that Sidney Lanier must have been somewhat like her long-departed cousin, Joshua Singleton St. Clair, whose private literary preserves stretched from the Black Belt to Bayou La Batre.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies.† (source)
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Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew.† (source)
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But I did not....There was no panic, no frenzy, no boisterousness, but only the haste which the situation authorized.† (source)
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But it just so happens that the lieutenant overhears this exchange and, in a boisterous frame of mind, imagines that here is a perfect opportunity to teach some dandies a thing or two about games of chance.† (source)
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"Plenty of gas," said Tom boisterously.† (source)
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She needed Wendy's boisterousness as balance to her own caution, Wendy's bluntness as antidote to her reserve.† (source)
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She came on late, and by then the place was crowded and noisy, though the audience occasionally fell silent over their beer, listening to the music, and the knocking between pieces grew loud and boisterous.† (source)
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