How to Use truculence in a Sentence

truculence

noun
  • Her truculence did not sit well with her long-ago peers or her studio bosses.
    — Ruth La Ferla, idahostatesman, 26 May 2017
  • This mix of resentment and truculence strikes a chord with many Russians.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2018
  • There, she’s known by guards and other inmates for her truculence, even her violence.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The girl, indignant, gathers up the clothes and stalks away; there’s a genuine truculence in her step.
    — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Trump’s trade war, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to be based on any consistent purpose except truculence.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2019
  • Rogan began the show in his customary posture of sleepy truculence.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • His was a presidency built atop mood and resentment and truculence.
    — Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Mike Babcock, a proponent of truculence in his charges, saw his bosses’ patience run out Wednesday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The only grounds for disputing this cheerful self-appraisal are that his tirades against Neve (prompted mainly by her mere existence) come over more as truculence than abuse.
    — James Lasdun, New York Times, 19 May 2017
  • Hamilton's occasional truculence and questions over tax have led to negative headlines over the years -- he is certainly admired.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 2 July 2020
  • Both came to Manchester with reputations for truculence and self-indulgence, as well as vivid brilliance, and both, once there, proved to be gifted leaders, too, by deed rather than by word.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Pompeo traveled through the eastern Mediterranean last month, in an implicit rebuke of Erdogan’s truculence.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Government regulation had to be escalated and hundreds of lawsuits had to be filed before the company’s truculence was overcome.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 June 2024
  • Trump’s willingness to meet with Kim — despite their history of mutual truculence — speaks to his real desire to resolve this longstanding issue.
    — Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • Other international powers are showing even less patience for Israeli truculence.
    — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Folklore also presented her with a set of emotions that, while releasing her, eventually, from sixties truculence, nevertheless felt true, not genteel.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • By this midflight, a single cup of water has been doled out to each passenger, the sum of amenities from cabin attendants radiating the imperious frown and spirit of truculence that is the hallmark of Aeroflot.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2022
  • Musk reacted to McCormick’s ruling with characteristic truculence.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This is a reality the PRC denies with fluctuating, but currently intensifying, truculence.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Last fall’s announcement that Amazon’s Prime Video platform would be teeing up four hours of exclusive coverage of the Masters was met with a predictable show of teeth-gnashing truculence, because how dare the Augusta brass entrust a new carveout to a digital interloper?
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2026

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