How to Use querulous in a Sentence

querulous

adjective

• From the outset, there is a querulous note to this Brutus.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• What’s absent, above all, is the querulous fury of Cyrano’s character.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
• But with her voice querulous rather than grounded, Adams appears weightless.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 1 June 2022
• True change will only come to the Knicks when the querulous and glowering Knicks owner interrogates his two decades of failure and shows himself the door.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
• Kate Kearney-Patch's Marína, the old nurse who knows how to soothe the querulous personalities around, doesn't want the spotlight, but her presence deserves to be felt more strongly.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
• There were long stretches of the debate where the audience of tens of millions surely had no idea what was going on except that these two querulous elderly men did not like each other.
  — David Faris, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2020
• Pendleton plays a querulous council member named Mr. Oldfield.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• As the self-doubting Miles, a man for whom every night is the dark night of the soul, Giamatti makes the best use of his querulous persona, investing an unerring comic touch in a character who is genuinely anguished.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• The two old preachers, whose memories and failing health and touchingly querulous relationship are at the heart of Gilead and Home, have had nothing but trouble, all their lives, from this son of Robert, known to everyone as Jack.
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020
• Burke, a burly, 43-year-old construction worker and former Marine, is a fairly new member of the obsessive, sometimes querulous world of fig hunters, whose numbers have jumped in recent years and reach at least into the hundreds or more.
  — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• Raisman, who is seventy-six, is querulous by nature, a determined outsider.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2016
• Raisman, who is seventy-six, is querulous by nature, a determined outsider.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• But were senior party figures to try this, Mr. Johnson might threaten to call a snap general election, preferring his chances of winning a contest among voters to one among his querulous lawmakers.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Even allowing for the querulous spirit that opinion polls often seem to inspire, this is an astonishing thing for the majority of the population to agree to in a country as stable, peaceful, rich, and successful as today’s Britain.
  — David Goodhart, National Review, 21 Aug. 2017
• Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
• In one drawing, a pair of women and a pair of men sit kibbitzing on benches in Union Square; Katz captures all four physiognomies and expressions—from a querulous, sharp-nosed woman to a sympathetic, shovel-chinned man—with vigilant specificity.
  — The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Officially retired, the aging sleuth nonetheless accepts an insurance company’s assignment to investigate the death of a debt-ridden and querulous American developer named Donald Zinn, who drowned off the Baja coast.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 19 July 2018

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