How to Use querulous in a Sentence

querulous

adjective
  • But with her voice querulous rather than grounded, Adams appears weightless.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 1 June 2022
  • The American right, too, is in a shifting, querulous state.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
  • What’s absent, above all, is the querulous fury of Cyrano’s character.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Raisman, who is seventy-six, is querulous by nature, a determined outsider.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Raisman, who is seventy-six, is querulous by nature, a determined outsider.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2016
  • In fact, the B-2 bombers were still in the air with hours to go before reaching home when Van Hollen issued his querulous statement.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 5 Mar. 2026
  • There were long stretches of the debate where the audience of tens of millions surely had no idea what was going on except that these two querulous elderly men did not like each other.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2020
  • True change will only come to the Knicks when the querulous and glowering Knicks owner interrogates his two decades of failure and shows himself the door.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Today those late, querulous paintings are counted among the most influential American artworks of the twentieth century.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Kate Kearney-Patch's Marína, the old nurse who knows how to soothe the querulous personalities around, doesn't want the spotlight, but her presence deserves to be felt more strongly.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • As the self-doubting Miles, a man for whom every night is the dark night of the soul, Giamatti makes the best use of his querulous persona, investing an unerring comic touch in a character who is genuinely anguished.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Burke, a burly, 43-year-old construction worker and former Marine, is a fairly new member of the obsessive, sometimes querulous world of fig hunters, whose numbers have jumped in recent years and reach at least into the hundreds or more.
    — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Even allowing for the querulous spirit that opinion polls often seem to inspire, this is an astonishing thing for the majority of the population to agree to in a country as stable, peaceful, rich, and successful as today’s Britain.
    — David Goodhart, National Review, 21 Aug. 2017
  • The two old preachers, whose memories and failing health and touchingly querulous relationship are at the heart of Gilead and Home, have had nothing but trouble, all their lives, from this son of Robert, known to everyone as Jack.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 22 Oct. 2020

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