How to Use argumentative in a Sentence

argumentative

adjective

• He became more argumentative during the debate.
• There’s an eerie gap between the raucous and argumentative world of the Internet and the silence of the streets.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• Teacher Mary Wood had planned to teach her class the book as part of the class’s preparation for the argumentative essay portion of the A.P. test.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• The court ruled that many of Deputy Banks’s claims were argumentative and unsupported in the more than 3,000 pages of documents in the case record.
  — Walt Bogdanich, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
• Henry had tired of his bold, argumentative wife, who, like Catherine, had been unable to bear a male child.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• Manning may be the most talked about athlete in New York over the last 20 years, and his up-and-down career still remains an argumentative topic.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Almandinger, until then argumentative and defiant, broke down and asked for a garbage can to throw up in.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2018
• Although on the argumentative front, Cohn out-Trumped Trump.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 2 Oct. 2019
• The officer talked to the driver, who was acting argumentative and questioned why he was pulled over.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
• The quote from Baltimore is part of its argumentative bedrock.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
• Superfight: This card game is a very silly way to work on debate and argumentative skills.
  — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2020
• And then when women don't take crap, then we're seen as argumentative, confrontational and bitches and all that good stuff.
  — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2018
• Officers spoke with him and a passenger; police said the pair was argumentative and tried to get out of the car against officers' orders.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• Be kind to others and yourselves around this time, as this energy can be argumentative.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 1 June 2021
• When asked to stop by store management, one man was argumentative.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Bill Gates was also said to be very critical and argumentative in the early days of Microsoft.
  — Alice Hearing, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Same too to some degree about the speed of the code, though this is certainly more argumentative in that the speed is something that those using the code are bound to directly experience.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Curtis became argumentative, and the two men spoke over each other.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021
• Smith, a longtime sports broadcaster, is known for his argumentative style and fiery rants when discussing the NBA and other high-profile sports topics.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
• It was noted the motorist was very argumentative with the officer.
  — cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
• The argumentative Frenchwoman gave a small squeak every time her shotgun went off—and hit more pheasants than anyone else.
  — John Lanchester, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2017
• Once on board, the rider became argumentative with the driver and threw a water bottle, striking the plex-glass partition next to the driver's seat, police said.
  — Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2021
• Officers contacted the women, and one claimed the man was harassing her and the other was just argumentative.
  — cleveland, 20 July 2022
• Karl Johnson is winning as the argumentative, honorable, elderly Giles Corey, who goes to his death for refusing to bow to the court’s double-think.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• The man became argumentative after he was told to disband his first party of about 50 people, the state's attorney's office said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• But machines are aeons away from being able to recreate rhetorical and argumentative flow across paragraphs and pages.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• It was learned that the man, who was combative and argumentative with officers, had a previous OVI arrest.
  — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Again, this argumentative tack not only falls flat but backfires.
  — Elie Honig, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• But Noble and Tripodis said the new executive order leaves them more open to argumentative customers.
  — Lauren Saria, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
• Dwyer said the officer requested the man's driver's license 11 times, and the man became argumentative.
  — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024