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How to use petulant in a sentence

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They can simultaneously be revered as heroes on the park and behave like petulant children in the street.
Yes, they were petulant crybabies who whined until they got what they wanted.
She was, as always, impeccably groomed and quite beautiful, but a petulant expression on her face marred her good looks slightly.
It should have been a good line, but he sounded like a petulant drone with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement.
A trace of a smile lifted the corners of her full lips and the petulant droop disappeared.
Castor shook them both vigorously and they protested with petulant whines and complaining moans.
Certainly his petulant racket-throwing antics last week were out of character.
It might be a rather petulant rhetorical question, or he might just be trying to keep me on the phone.
In some cases, the antagonism seemed petulant and self-interested, and sometimes it was fuelled by genuine moral outrage.
But what is harder to condone than the folly of youth is the sight of the game's senior figures acting like petulant, paranoid brats.
Jeter, pouting and petulant, stamped his feet and flung his hat around in the dugout.
Animal spirits could be low, broken, oppressed, dejected, petulant, harassed or even ruffled beyond description.
Jamie, hitherto the one who has had life handed to him on a plate only to throw it back like a petulant toddler, becomes as much a victim as Ian.
An immature and petulant display by the centre-back cost his side dear as the game progressed.
Thankfully, the New York quartet don't share that band's annoying tendency to gratuitously swear like petulant third-graders.
By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers.
They are weak, petulant, hypocritical, disunited, duplicitous, sometimes anti-Semitic, and often anti-American appeasers.
Apols if I'm being petulant, but I'm still cross with him for blocking me on Twitter.
In a fashion shoot called Doll Drums, the model lies limp and stiff, draped over chairs as if she'd been thrown there by a petulant child.
You may baulk at forking out your hard-earned cash for these extravagantly self-obsessed, petulant, little scamps.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Extreme sensitiveness is apt to accompany a spirit of just his high-strung, petulant, and spleenful sort.
Her petulant sister and the logy Luella never dreamed that Aunt Crete desired such un-auntly indulgences.
Once, when she broke the tired boy's rest by her caresses, he became petulant, and eluded her for her obtrusiveness.
For the first time, too, there was a petulant vein in his attitude toward me.
Maizie gazed for a moment at the oatmeal in her own blue plate, then with a little petulant gesture, she pushed the plate away.
No daydreamer likes being pulled out of his dream by so ugly a reality as Pete, and Johnny was petulant.
His voice was squeaky and petulant, like that of a child who is suddenly forbidden a toy.
She shrugged her shoulders with a petulant pessimism her youth made amusing.
The petulant whining of the jackals prevented Renfrew from sleeping.
Are you mistress of the petulant, the peevish, and the sullen tone?
I like my May to be smiling and gladsome, not frowning and petulant.
These two clauses have been the source of much virulent invective and petulant declamation against the proposed Constitution.
The doting old husband was the willing slave of the petulant young wife's slightest caprice.
What I said was petulant and snappish enough, and Hunsden only replied by looking in my face and laughing.
Smiled, and made him ashamed of his petulant gift there, before them.
It would be the worse for us if our petulant prayers were answered.
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