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- adverb In a
rowdy manner.
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- adverb in a rowdy manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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When my moose-meat spluttered rowdily in the frying-pan, I noticed old Ebbits's nostrils twitch and distend as he caught the food-scent.
The White Man's Way 2010
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But Tunisians, complaining that the prime minister was too close to the old regime and lacked commitment to the reforms he had promised, had taken to the streets again, this time more rowdily, hurling rocks at shops as well as police as they vented their frustration at the slow pace of change.
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When my moose-meat spluttered rowdily in the frying-pan, I noticed old Ebbits's nostrils twitch and distend as he caught the food-scent.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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And in the silence that followed, a blue-bottle fly buzzed rowdily against an adjacent window-pane, with occasional loud bumps against the glass tokening that he too had his tragedy, a prisoner pent by baffling transparency from the bright world that blazed so immediately beyond.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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But Tunisians, complaining that the prime minister was too close to the old regime and lacked commitment to the reforms he had promised, had taken to the streets again, this time more rowdily, hurling rocks at shops as well as police as they vented their frustration at the slow pace of change.
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The beans bubbled rowdily on the front lid, and he pushed the pot back to a cooler surface.
SIWASH 2010
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But Tunisians, complaining that the prime minister was too close to the old regime and lacked commitment to the reforms he had promised, had taken to the streets again, this time more rowdily, hurling rocks at shops as well as police as they vented their frustration at the slow pace of change.
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Many a night he could be seen spraying water rowdily up at the sky as though trying to put out the moon and all the stars.
ronald baatz | the elephants and everybody else « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Many a night he could be seen spraying water rowdily up at the sky as though trying to put out the moon and all the stars.
August « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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She taught me chinga, and they all helped me work on my accent, laughing rowdily, until the bell rang.
POOR PITIFUL PEARL Maggie Jochild 2007
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