How to Use garrulous in a Sentence

garrulous

adjective
  • He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.
  • The heat from the wood stove makes the place all the more primal and garrulous.
    — David Coggins, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2015
  • These days, Bono—this noisy and garrulous man—craves silence.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Is there something about books that makes customers more garrulous?
    — Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Colin is the garrulous front man, pouring wine and ribbing guests.
    — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • My uncle was neither a garrulous Texan type nor a silent type.
    — David Dobbs, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • The speech last night was empty and uselessly garrulous.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Then there’s Tollund Man’s hair, which may end up being the most garrulous part of him.
    — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Then there’s Tollund Man’s hair, which may end up being the most garrulous part of him.
    — Christian Als, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • My garrulous inner narrator never stops, and my body can’t keep still.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • The roster rules that are known read like a garrulous alphabet-soup of acronyms and directives.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • The idea was to capture the garrulous energy of Streisand’s cabaret act, which was one of the hottest tickets in town.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Burly, garrulous Mike Dorety, a steady hand in so many emergencies, did not like to stray far from his wife.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Among the garrulous adults were hundreds of fluffy brown chicks huddled together in crèches while their parents were away at sea.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2021
  • So, these days, Michigan football’s garrulous offensive line coach doesn’t need to say much.
    — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2020
  • Saunders’s witty and garrulous graveyard is filled with semi-spirits in a state of denial.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Grisham is garrulous and funny when talking about himself, much more so than the tone of rectitude in some of his books might suggest.
    — Janet Maslin, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • The host Sedat Peker is garrulous, menacing and more than a little grandiose.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Wehmhoff is garrulous and lively; Munson is eloquent and tempered.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 Mar. 2021
  • There’s even a chat feature so your most garrulous friends can still narrate without rudely interrupting the movie.
    — Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 18 Mar. 2020
  • That’s the perspective that informs the book and that raises it above what would in any case be an engagingly garrulous memoir.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Faqrul, a garrulous Bengali poet in exile, is the narrator’s first guide to the city and a welcome source of light relief.
    — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Perhaps Fallon, known for being one of the more garrulous among TV’s late-night coterie, has more to say.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024
  • After all, what used to seem to you a vibrant, garrulous hangout space, or at least a reasonable simulation of one, has become a ghost town.
    — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Recently, the garrulous Leon Trotsky has told the world to beware of a new Russian death ray.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The usually garrulous David Dickey, who runs the station, did not return a text for comment.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Mike Denne, 69, a garrulous locksmith in Mitchell, was no activist, not a vocal anti-masker by any means.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Edelman is 33, with the open, garrulous demeanor of a perpetual college kid.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The reclusive cipher turns out to be a garrulous interview subject, so long as the conversations are conducted by e-mail.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • For now, the immediate goals remain modest for the garrulous Walker.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2018

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