How to Use truculent in a Sentence

truculent

adjective
  • The orc allies that players gather to build their army can be funny, truculent or stupid.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
  • Is some planet somewhere pulling in the wrong direction, like a truculent mule?
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In the show, Chao plays the truculent, egoistic chef Lucy Dang.
    — Coralie Kraft, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Chinese forces have adopted a truculent approach to prosecuting those claims.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Why should Trump risk such a confrontation with less-than-eager allies and a truculent Iranian regime?
    — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 20 July 2017
  • Little kids squirm in makeshift beds trying to stay awake for Santa, while truculent teenagers sneak out into the suburban night to do secret teenager things.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • Mexico City is so inept, so compromised by the cartels, and so truculent that joint military action seems a pipe dream.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • At times Javier was flirty with Kate and stood up to his truculent brother, and that behavior affects on how he is being treated in the present.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
  • And if talks collapse many fear that France’s famously truculent fishermen could blockade ports to stop movements of British fish.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Goddard once walked into the room of a senior member of chambers who was proving particularly truculent.
    — Simon Akam, Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
  • Then there are more truculent types like Jay Sekulow and John Dowd, the president’s personal lawyer.
    — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018
  • But a growing and increasingly truculent segment of Iran’s population doubts the standoff is worth it.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Right until the moment his life was extinguished, his art was truculent, bold, arresting and unassimilable.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But the bloc still faces hurdles implementing its climate goals that include truculent member states like pro-coal Poland and Britain's plans to exit from the bloc.
    — Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2017
  • To move forward, Brown had to come to terms with all that went wrong during his short and truculent tenure at West Orange, which ended amid bizarre circumstances.
    — J.c. Carnahan, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Their reaction is a truculent reassertion of popular sovereignty.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • In Brussels, Sondland garnered a reputation for his truculent manner and fondness for the trappings of privilege.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Merz may have taken to heart a truculent speech Vance had given days earlier at the Munich Security Conference.
    — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The unforgiving denunciation of non-compliant politicians, led some to accuse the campaign of blackmail and has won them many truculent enemies in parliament.
    — Andrew Connelly, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2015
  • France has been mired in crisis as a series of minority governments struggle to pass deficit-reduction measures through a truculent parliament, split between three ideological blocs.
    — CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • But that time frame has come and gone, raising the question of whether Pyongyang’s truculent behavior represents an about-face on its commitment to hold talks or simply a negotiating tactic ahead of the meetings.
    — John Hudson, Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • Gradually, though, dubby hand percussion rises up from the deep, and soon a truculent, alien-sounding riff and loping dancehall cadence spin the compass point back toward Batu’s Bristol.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 July 2026
  • Freddie Gibbs struck a similar note during his cheerfully truculent performance on Saturday afternoon.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Even if the administration has no further military designs on the Western Hemisphere, a virtual sword of Damocles hangs over the head of truculent governments.
    — Richard Fontaine, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • His earliest instructor was a truculent Marine captain who preached raw violence, which helped on the revenge front but which left Kamen desiring a deeper spiritual connection with the craft.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • In typically truculent manner, France’s powerful unions planned protests even in advance of the election result, in a show of force designed to remind the winner that public sector workers have the capacity to bring the country to a halt.
    — Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 8 May 2017
  • France is in the midst of its worst political crisis in decades as a succession of minority governments seek to push deficit-reducing budgets through a truculent legislature split into three distinct ideological blocs.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Darren McCarty, a truculent member of the Red Wings who had multiple fights with Lemieux, posted a broken heart emoji on social media and heard the news from Draper.
    — Stephen Whyno, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026
  • If Rufo represented a modern, media-savvy social conservatism, then Speir embodied a more atavistic traditionalism, both more wandering and more truculent.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023

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