Sample Sentences fortruculent (editor-reviewed)
-
•
The truculent customer refused to leave the store until he got a refund.truculent = defiantly aggressive
-
•
The truculent dog barked and growled at anyone who came near.
-
•
Triceratops: the size and gray color of an elephant, with the truculent stance of a rhino. (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
He was still clutching the sword of Gryffindor, and wore a strange look: half truculent, half intrigued. (source)
-
•
Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance. (source)Truculently = in a defiantly aggressive manner
-
•
"No, there hasn't been any one else," she answered almost truculently. (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 4 word variations
-
•
The boldest and most truculent had been hanged, the rest put to work. (source)truculent = defiantly aggressive
-
•
I asked Mami truculently.† (source)
-
•
His only weapons against her were silence, truculence; he cultivated an occasional brooding intensity.† (source)
-
•
With the customary infirmity of temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows with her wings. (source)
-
•
These two are also of the same position, but the Count impressed me as a man of somewhat truculent disposition.† (source)
-
•
'You never trust me with information,' he whined truculently.† (source)
-
•
He has the self-confidence of one who has made money, and something of the truculence of one who has made it in a brutalizing struggle, his civility having under it a perceptible menace that he has other methods in reserve if necessary.† (source)
-
•
Gerald was likable, and the neighbors learned in time what the children, negroes and dogs discovered at first sight, that a kind heart, a ready and sympathetic ear and an open pocketbook lurked just behind his bawling voice and his truculent manner.† (source)
-
•
She saw that Sykes had kicked all of the clothes together again, and now stood in her way truculently, his whole manner hoping, praying, for an argument.† (source)
-
•
This beastly, incorrigible truculence comes from your mother, Hera, whom I keep but barely in my power, say what I will.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)