How to Use rambunctious in a Sentence
rambunctious
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Around them, a dozen or so rambunctious kids played tag or broke open bags of chips.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
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Crazy Horse didn’t start out with that wooly, rambunctious sound.
—Morgan Enos, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2018
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Your rambunctious pup will have plenty of fun playing with it all year long.
—Rachel Simon, PEOPLE.com, 1 Feb. 2022
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This time around, Venus in Aries will be more docile and less rambunctious.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 28 Apr. 2025
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She's allowed to play and go wild just like her rambunctious brothers.
—Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
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And the latkes are rambunctious, While the herrings dance in cream.
—New York Times, 17 June 2019
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Learn how to live amongst rugged Vikings and rambunctious dragons.
—Samantha Neely, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
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Learn how to live amongst rugged Vikings and rambunctious dragons.
—Samantha Neely, USA Today, 23 May 2025
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Of course baby + rambunctious dog = err on the side of caution.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
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The first movie followed a group of rambunctious pets who run wild when their owners leave the house.
—Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 13 May 2019
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These have done little, though, to slow the rambunctious toddler down.
—Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2017
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Meaning, in her mind, more rambunctious.
—Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 4 June 2026
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The rambunctious boy loved to play outside and clamber onto her lap to kiss her.
—NBC News, 22 June 2018
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Her life is filled with all things pink, except for the one bit of blue—her rambunctious 4-year-old son.
—Alicia Harper, Redbook, 24 Feb. 2012
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Diaz recalls his own early days as a rambunctious child in the crew.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
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The arena crowd was nowhere near as rambunctious as the festival crowd.
—Kyle Slagle, The Courier-Journal, 12 Nov. 2019
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All three of my large, rambunctious dogs hate the loud explosions caused by fireworks.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 July 2024
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As a child, my son was rambunctious and full of energy, although, at times, shy.
—Woman's Day, 1 July 2016
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Check out a first look at Stiller and said rambunctious nephews in the first look photo above.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
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This one is perched on the finger of regal mom, while her rambunctious boy steps forward to reach for it.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
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Thanks to the anti-slip bottom, the couch won’t shift around when your rambunctious pet hops into it.
—Christine Persaud, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
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The project’s name is what Sprouse and Columbus call their friend group of rambunctious guys.
—Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 7 July 2026
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Both were a ball to bash around in, and both stood up to our rambunctious romping without so much as a trace of fatigue.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2020
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Paré-Poupart’s style gives his book a rambunctious spirit, a sense of a hungry, catholic mind at work.
—Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
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Paré-Poupart’s style gives his book a rambunctious spirit, a sense of a hungry, catholic mind at work.
—Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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Bagatelle is the slightly more rambunctious option.
—Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
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There the family grew to six with the addition of four rambunctious boys.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 13 May 2018
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The Wings don’t have anyone else with the same rambunctious style, the same knack for scoring while in front of the net.
—Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2021
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She is based in the Chicago suburbs and is a mom to two little boys and rambunctious rescue pup.
—Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
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There was polish to the wine, the sort of sheen that comes only from the friction of age sanding away the rough edges of rambunctious youth.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 25 May 2017
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