Sample sentences for BOISTEROUS

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Definition

excessively noisy and unrestrained

It is a boisterous crowd, but there is more than enough security.

boisterous = excessively noisy and unrestrained

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.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

boisterous = noisy and unrestrained

The one thing I did, though, I was careful ... not to get boisterous or anything.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

boisterous = excessively noisy and unrestrained

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.
Shirley Jackson -- The Lottery

boisterous = noisy and unrestrained

Bronty's "foal" was now a boisterous yearling who in public was treated by Pilgrim with a kind of lofty disdain.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Peeves seemed to be bouncing along the corridor in boisterous good spirits, laughing his head off.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
We crossed the square where Leon heroically nursed his wife, and then raised his boisterous children with a devotion that amazed us all.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
He was kind to her also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they seemed to be a happy couple.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
He was loud and boisterous, always laughing and singing, and never able to work consecutively at anything.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
And the townspeople paraded the brilliantly lighted streets in boisterous groups, laughing and singing.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
The boisterous wind is hushed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
George was boisterous where I was sedate, outgoing where I was shy, chunky and square-cut where I was long and angular.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
"And men descend into holes," interrupted Cap, laughing in his boisterous way, while Pathfinder chimed in, in his peculiar manner.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
Pete had resembled Mike: big, at six foot four; boisterous, handsome with a white-toothed smile; full of life.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
'tis lucky thou hast seen the sight; The boisterous guests approach that were invited.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
Other than the boisterous revolutionaries who had invaded our lives in Corpus Christi, most of the Iranians I knew were cultured and polite.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
Even under the glow of his wine he was never boisterous, though he found the stuff like a magician's wand for wonder-building.
Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
The three brothers followed him, boisterous from the open air and their recent doings, so that now the clan was complete.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Nothing like the boisterous, giggling behavior I expect from them.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

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