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How to use truculent in a sentence

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Danny is a truculent teenager, expressing unhappiness through behaviour that perplexes his parents and leads to eventual expulsion from school.
The truculent aggression and stiff-necked unilateralism of both teams are already well known.
Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon.
Those who sought to defend the rights of property-owners were exposed to truculent and often offensive questioning.
She was very argumentative and truculent and when I tried to calm her down, I noticed something strange.
Instead, they gradually fell into a sullen silence, their noisemakers clacked to a dead stop, and the truculent trumpet blasts were shushed.
So how did this truculent loner become one of our best loved national mascots?
No group or organisation can be held accountable, nor should they be for the actions of a small group of truculent individuals.
Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence.
He might take it as a national mandate to pursue the policy of truculent unilateralism.
Perhaps all this success and recognition has softened what was once a rather truculent disposition.
Journalist: The antithesis of Texier is Yvon Taillandier whose truculent mental world has been copied by many fashionable painters.
Juan, the truculent gun-brandishing leader, imposes Maoist thought control on Yvonne, his lover, and Pauline.
As in 2002, a truculent nation demands a monarchy on its own, emotional terms.
I got a ride to Göbekli Tepe from an overweight, truculent taxi-driver, a friend of the hotel receptionist.
He certainly looked very truculent and, I could see, he had absolutely no recollection of seeing us before.
A small fearless chap, truculent, brilliant of health and overflowing with life, he's found his place in the leading bunch.
His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved.
But his truculent behaviour and volatile temper is outraging purists.
Colleagues say the negotiating skills he displayed during his dealings with truculent Glasgow councillors showed he has the mettle for the big time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A roll of drums, a chorus of men's voices, somewhat truculent, in the drinking song.
In anger, as in every other emotion, the neuropath is as transient as he is truculent.
The Illanun chiefs, for all their truculent aspect, were much too prudent to attempt to move.
It was with an ugly and truculent manner, if more warily, that the man closed in.
He strutted, stiff-legged and truculent about the body of the fallen enemy.
With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy house.
That is, a city of extremely truculent and argumentative local political leaders at the time of his bon mot.
Jody Weir checked his horse and regarded Dines with a truculent stare.
Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
I could have embraced that figure of grotesque and truculent devotion.
He was a truculent, untamable rough, evidently inspired with gin.
Or was I, after all my grind, to yield a place to the truculent Coxhead?
De Marle was helpless with illness, but truculent in temper.
Gautier's truculent waistcoat flamed in the thickest of the fight.
George, who was big and lank, and truculent in appearance, nodded.
But outnumbering them by far were faces set in truculent mold.
Imagine a thin but extremely wiry man, past middle age, brown and bloodless as any crabapple, but as coolly truculent and as casually alert as Raffles at his worst.
I knew that something must have happened or been discovered to disperse that truculent party of sportsmen so soon and on such good terms with themselves.
She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
Valentin remained, and the two men, in their respective places, sat out the rest of the performance, which was also enjoyed by Mademoiselle Nioche and her truculent admirer.
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