How to Use truculent in a Sentence

truculent

adjective

• In the show, Chao plays the truculent, egoistic chef Lucy Dang.
  — Coralie Kraft, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• David Greybeard is inclined to become truculent in the rain.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• The orc allies that players gather to build their army can be funny, truculent or stupid.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
• At times Javier was flirty with Kate and stood up to his truculent brother, and that behavior affects on how he is being treated in the present.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
• As for the alarm of Wittes, Trump may be appalling, but Congress is still independent-minded and truculent.
  — T.a. Frank, The Hive, 10 Dec. 2017
• Then there are more truculent types like Jay Sekulow and John Dowd, the president’s personal lawyer.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018
• My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
• To move forward, Brown had to come to terms with all that went wrong during his short and truculent tenure at West Orange, which ended amid bizarre circumstances.
  — J.c. Carnahan, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• But the bloc still faces hurdles implementing its climate goals that include truculent member states like pro-coal Poland and Britain's plans to exit from the bloc.
  — Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2017
• Why should Trump risk such a confrontation with less-than-eager allies and a truculent Iranian regime?
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 20 July 2017
• And if talks collapse many fear that France’s famously truculent fishermen could blockade ports to stop movements of British fish.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020
• But a growing and increasingly truculent segment of Iran’s population doubts the standoff is worth it.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• The 8 p.m. slot now features Tucker Carlson, charming, smart and libertarian (that is, not even dependably right wing), quite a looking-glass version of dark and truculent O’Reilly.
  — Michael Wolff, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2017
• Goddard once walked into the room of a senior member of chambers who was proving particularly truculent.
  — Simon Akam, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
• In Brussels, Sondland garnered a reputation for his truculent manner and fondness for the trappings of privilege.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2019
• But that time frame has come and gone, raising the question of whether Pyongyang’s truculent behavior represents an about-face on its commitment to hold talks or simply a negotiating tactic ahead of the meetings.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
• In typically truculent manner, France’s powerful unions planned protests even in advance of the election result, in a show of force designed to remind the winner that public sector workers have the capacity to bring the country to a halt.
  — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 8 May 2017
• There are those in Paris who will tell you—without any irony whatsoever—that the story of Pierre Bergé is the story of France in the second half of the 20th century: often incorrigible, sometimes truculent, always ascendant.
  — James McAuley, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2017
• Right until the moment his life was extinguished, his art was truculent, bold, arresting and unassimilable.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• The unforgiving denunciation of non-compliant politicians, led some to accuse the campaign of blackmail and has won them many truculent enemies in parliament.
  — Andrew Connelly, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2015
• His earliest instructor was a truculent Marine captain who preached raw violence, which helped on the revenge front but which left Kamen desiring a deeper spiritual connection with the craft.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 1 May 2018
• His aggressive style and truculent treatment of Premier League referees made him an imposing figure for any opposition.
  — SI.com, 10 May 2018
• Their reaction is a truculent reassertion of popular sovereignty.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• All of this is mostly an invention, or a repurposing of Jerome’s identity during the Renaissance, when the truculent theological ideologue of Catholic Church history was recast as a meditative scholar who sought the solace of nature.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• If Rufo represented a modern, media-savvy social conservatism, then Speir embodied a more atavistic traditionalism, both more wandering and more truculent.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• Freddie Gibbs struck a similar note during his cheerfully truculent performance on Saturday afternoon.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
• From such early human-animal relationships came many generations of breeding in which people bred animals with the most beneficial traits and discarded the undersized, truculent, or otherwise undesirable creatures.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 4 July 2019
• Milton—in his prose an opinionated and truculent writer—remains a magnet for opinionated and truculent criticism.
  — Helen Vendler, New Republic, 30 July 2001
• Instead, truculent and unaccommodating regimes and movements proliferated.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The hard work is to demonstrate exactly how the outsize Churchillian personality, so truculent, so impulsive, so often profoundly wrongheaded, became, in the dark spring of 1940, just what was needed for national survival.
  — Simon Schama, New York Review of Books, 28 Feb. 2002

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