Sample Sentences for
garrulous
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    I suppose there'd be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust, and some garrulous man telling over and over what had happened, until...  (source)
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    Because Caleb was old, the young man had thought, of course, he would be garrulous and full of reminiscence, but he was wrong.  (source)
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    She was as tranquil as he was agitated, as monosyllabic as he was garrulous.  (source)
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    Holding on grimly, I could hear the sound of someone wading, sloshing, nearby, and an old man's garrulous voice saying, "I tole 'em these here young Nineteen-Hundred boys ain't no good for the job."  (source)
    garrulous = talkative
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    The small, bald man was not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizing.†  (source)
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    He felt a garrulousness coming on him and he was frightened at the impulse.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    ...peopled with garrulous outraged baffled ghosts,  (source)
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    When I had dressed and opened the door, I heard the waves still lapping on the beach, garrulously attesting the fury of the night.†  (source)
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    Usually you have to be polite to my garrulousness, but now I'm sitting at your feet.†  (source)
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    She was an old garrulous woman,  (source)
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    "I have, good sir," she answered garrulously.†  (source)
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    What struck him most were his extreme garrulousness and restlessness.†  (source)
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    Nestor is sometimes taken as a garrulous old Polonius; but experience is greatly respected in his society, and his long speeches play a role in several of the poem's turning points.  (source)
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