Looking for sentences and phrases with the word termagant? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation.
Dearest, if I'm one, then you must be a termagant, a misandrist and all its synonyms rolled into one.
The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack.
Rourke was sure he would not want to face the termagant anytime soon.
The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.
These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.
Examples from Classical Literature
Handsome Feilding at once proceeded to materialise his bargain, and at last the termagant was tamed.
She seemed to be a sort of termagant, and she said nobody said that about her unless you told them.
And I was the termagant who must have put it there, though I have no memory of doing so.
It was as if Elizabeth had put herself into the situation of a termagant wife.
Why, what a bloody-minded, inveterate, termagant strumpet have I been plagued with!
This bride was a canting hypocrite of sixty-three, covetous, and a termagant.
His wife is a shrew, a termagant, who embitters every hour of his existence.
With that thought, however, came a mental picture of Naratu, the black termagant, who ruled him with an iron hand.
In The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio starves his termagant wife into orderly conduct that appears alternately submissive and empowered.
In all of them, termagant, flirt, crank, washerwoman, blue-stocking, outcast and even in the ordinary fool of the ordinary commerce there is something left, if only a spark.
