TRUCULENT in a Sentence

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1. One day, it might even suit the Kremlin to encourage this truculence.
2. Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
3. Tynan's reviews were noted for their caustic attacks and general tone of truculence.
4. The bully was initially truculent but eventually stopped picking fights at the least provocation.
5. His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRUCULENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
truculent
 a.  disposed to fight; belligerent; aggressively hostile
Classic Sentence:
1  Only the Negro and I were near enough to hear what he said but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with truculent eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
3  Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
5  His face was very truculent, grey and massive, with black cavernous nostrils and circled by a scanty white fur.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
Example Sentence:
1  The bully was initially truculent but eventually stopped picking fights at the least provocation.
2  Tynan's reviews were noted for their caustic attacks and general tone of truculence.
3  One day, it might even suit the Kremlin to encourage this truculence.