Sample sentences for TRUCULENT

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defiantly aggressive

My friends had assembled again, a far more somber, truculent group than before.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

I want payment; that's what I want," he said truculently.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
Nor was she pleased by the High Sparrow's endless truculence and ingratitude.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
"You'll perhaps batten down your hatches till you're spoke to, my friend," cried Silver truculently to this speaker.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
(He turns and sees ROPER excited and truculent) ROPER But sir— MORE Now listen, Will.
Robert Bolt -- A Man for All Seasons
They all featured a truculent, slightly geeky anti-hero.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
These two are also of the same position, but the Count impressed me as a man of somewhat truculent disposition.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
He was still clutching the sword of Gryffindor, and wore a strange look: half truculent, half intrigued.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"Where have you been?" he demanded truculently.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
CREON Thou art as sullen in thy yielding mood As in thine anger thou wast truculent.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
'You never trust me with information,' he whined truculently.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
But he was refused confirmation by an increasingly truculent Senate.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
It was as if truculent Anys was beside me, whispering impatiently in my ear.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
A truculent little budgie waited until I nearly trod on her before flitting away.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
Triceratops: the size and gray color of an elephant, with the truculent stance of a rhino.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
I asked Mami truculently.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
This beastly, incorrigible truculence comes from your mother, Hera, whom I keep but barely in my power, say what I will.
Homer -- The Iliad
His manner is so threatening that she retreats as he comes at her truculently, driving her down the yard.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara

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