The leader of the party gave a truculent speech against the opposition. From LearnThat.org.
A truculent speech against the new government. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : his truculent criticism of her work. From Dictionary.com.
A kind of truculent honesty which he could never dissemble for long, always stood in his way. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
The general manager of the Leafs has famously stated he wants a "truculent" and. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Letter, of the "truculent" and "unhappy" national symbol presiding over the entrance to Salem‘s. From Wordnik.com. [National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest] Reference
A kind of truculent question was in his eyes -- as much as to say, "Now then, what do you make of it all?. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock o' Glenwarlock] Reference
He was still truculent, and brandishing his spear. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
"No, I won't," says that truculent person distinctly. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"What do you want?" the man demanded in a truculent tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers] Reference
So truculent was his demeanour that nobody ventured to speak. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference
Krugersdorpers 'truculent,' and we had to make a demonstration. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
Canadians who had been in the American Navy was unusually truculent. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
All that remained was the bouquet of truculent voices and my mimicry. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Married Women] Reference
"Well, tell him I'm here," the deputy commanded, with a truculent air. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
Zeke made bold to accost that red-faced and truculent-appearing person. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
At any rate, though he was still truculent, there were no more outbursts of rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard; a decidedly truculent-looking figure. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Leyden's tone was truculent; yet he respected the warning of that small, steady pistol. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
This was a square-built, bullet-headed man with an air that was both truculent and eager. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Rives had sent the other two out of the room then and had adopted a less truculent manner. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
I was an F student from the words "bon jour," and soon grew truculent in my "total immersion.". From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 51: All Things French] Reference
The only way to reach him was by going through his front man in the agency, a blank-faced, truculent. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
Potomac began to believe that their truculent pet might have simply paraphrased Falstaff, and cried. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Viking mustaches that had turned truculent, his whole aspect of animosity at this last collapse of hope. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
He walked around to grab me by the elbow and steer me as far away from Lefty's truculent face as he could. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
And the prospect does not even dazzle him, or awe his colleagues of the coonskin coats and the truculent whiskers. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Pasha with him, a little, black-avised man with a beard like wire, who bore a malacca cane in very truculent fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
"Why didn't they go back to their own planet, then, where they belonged?" broke in the truculent voice of Garrigan again. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference
He took a prominent and truculent part in the famous conference of prelates and Presbyterian divines held at Hampton Court in. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
At the same time, Chinese officials are well aware of how illogical, opaque and truculent the 45-year-old military regime can be. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem With Burma] Reference
Becker down, were German, did not pretend to understand the system, but blindly followed the lead of the scholars and their truculent head. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
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