rumbustious

Example Sentences

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Like rumbustious Walt Whitman, “The Heart of American Poetry” is large and contains multitudes, being part “Song of Myself” and part July Fourth celebration.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

As the well-read Schweitzer unobtrusively acknowledges, he borrowed Sherlock’s alternate 19th-century Britain from Joan Aiken’s rumbustious Dido Twite novels.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021

The rumbustious suffragettes are relegated to small etchings on the new statue’s plinth, a marginalisation that hints at lingering unease with their methods.

From Economist • Apr. 19, 2018

We're getting hefty now and, after two number eights, my choice for number three is rumbustious Ireland prop Tadhg Furlong.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2017

But the sperm whales are such raging, ramping, roaring, rumbustious fellows, that, if Mother Carey let them in, there would be no more peace in Peacepool. 

From The Water-Babies by Kingsley, Charles