How to Use noisemaker in a Sentence

noisemaker

noun

• All the guests had noisemakers and party hats.
• The actors use noisemakers to mimic sounds of the sea and the monsters.
  — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 5 Jan. 2020
• My dad’s waiting room was hushed, the constant low din of a noisemaker at the foot of his closed office door.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022
• Waller hiked the canyon, pausing at 80 locations to snap a noisemaker fashioned from a rat trap and record the echoes.
  — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2012
• The video ended with True popping in to blow her silver noisemaker.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• And think of our dogs before lighting scary noisemakers near homes.
  — Maddie Mortell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Sparklers on a wire stick, toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns and trick noisemakers are exempt from the law, the Enquirer reports.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
• As the drones got closer, elephants began to scatter, with one even slinging mud at the noisemaker.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 2 Aug. 2017
• Grandpa told me the stories of the parade in 1948 when the Indians won the World Series—the ceaseless cheering, the horns blowing, the pots and pans turned noisemakers for the days following the game.
  — Hayden Grove, cleveland.com, 29 June 2019
• There are some exceptions to Ohio's ban, including sparklers on a wire stick, toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns and trick noisemakers.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
• From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., there will be a noisemaker craft project in the auditorium lobby.
  — Korky Vann, courant.com, 31 May 2017
• Items which will not be allowed include flowers, gifts, food or drink, signs, balloons and noisemakers.
  — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 25 May 2020
• Across the world, Jews retell the story of Queen Esther in lavish spectacles, called Purim spiels, that feature costumes, jokes, satire, noisemakers and food and wine.
  — Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
• The celebration reached its zenith as the fifth graders came through, with parents, staff and younger students in the hall and at the front entrance, cheering, blowing noisemakers and shaking the pom-poms.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 15 June 2018
• The same machine that buzzed through firewood or felled a tree with ease suddenly turns into little more than a noisemaker.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
• By December, all that remain are the clean-up crew — hawks, owls, buzzards — the noisemakers — crows, jays, woodpeckers — and the winter flock of dusky little ones.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• The video shows a police officer shooting a woman and her son after a dispute over a noisemaker.
  — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• New Year’s is about noisemakers, champagne, and college football, while Christmas, for those of us believers, is about the birth of our Savior.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Lights and noisemakers, some of them activated by radio collars on wolves, can frighten off the canids.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 10 June 2018
• Some are bold, quick to approach the person or noisemaker, and others are shy, giving the threatening intruder a wide berth.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020
• As part of the Noon-Year’s celebration, kids got to decorate party hats and noisemakers, which were paper plates folded in half and stuffed with beans.
  — Brooke Edwards Staggs, Orange County Register, 1 Jan. 2017
• Live streams of concerts by infamous Berlin noisemakers Einstuerzende Neubauten are a big-name draw.
  — John Alderman, WIRED, 2 Feb. 1999
• Hired workers could hand out recycling bags before parades alongside the vendors with their carts full of glow sticks and noisemakers.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• There was much anticipation as midnight drew near, as Grannie B brought out the box of brightly colored noisemakers, and each of us picked out our favorite one.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2017
• The noisemaker that Díaz López used in the study is intended to keep dolphins away from fishing nets to prevent them from taking the catch from fishermen, and stop them from getting caught in the net themselves.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2020
• Night watchmen checked locks, addressed loud noises and alerted people to fires with a handheld noisemaker — an early version of a fire alarm.
  — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• Armed with noisemakers like pots and pans and singing at the top of their lungs, revelers would travel on foot in a procession from their villages to local orchards to make a ruckus on the Twelfth Night (January 5).
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Jan. 2018
• Principal Kathy Garafola said as parents gathered at the front entrance and teachers and staff acquired pom-poms and noisemakers.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 15 June 2018
• In many New York buildings, a radiator is a noisemaker, disturbing the peace with clanking and hissing.
  — The New Yorker, 11 May 2013
• That project, which has been delayed for years, will use noisemakers, a bubble curtain, an electric barrier and a flushing lock to prevent carp from passing.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024