rowdy

Example Sentences

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Unlike a church service, shows are rowdy and a bit untethered.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Is there a more unlikely smash than this two-week baseball tournament which features 20 national teams and wraps with a rowdy title game March 17 in Miami?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Semenyo's winner silenced a raucous and rowdy crowd with a real poacher's finish, reacting quickest to latch on to Rayan Ait-Nouri's cross and converting with aplomb.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

We’ve had rowdy truck drivers come kind of close to us, and the DOT guys will be like, “Watch out. What’s going on with you? Slow down.”

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

Lucinda, whose voice is hoarse with disciplining the rowdy crew, hands Yolanda the knife.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez