The boy looked up truculently at his teacher. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : his truculent criticism of her work. From Dictionary.com.
His eye caught mine and I stared back truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
"I want ther money now," said the farmer truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
The stick lay nearby as though cast truculently aside. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
"The doctor's out," she announced somewhat truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The major truculently refilled his glass with lemonade. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
"And where should I hurry?" the latter asked truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference
"And why should she do that?" demanded Eliza truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"I'd prefer our travel permits," Sharpe said truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
'Wheres yous wants to gos?' he asked, almost truculently. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
"I'd prefer our travel permits, " Sharpe said truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
"Did you ever see the like?" the other went on truculently. From Wordnik.com. [THE MAN WITH THE GASH] Reference
"I guess I'll never git choked," replied Pete, truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
"I ain't got change for gold, " the woman said truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
'Do you mind if I sit here?' she asked, almost truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Moonwar]
"The fall of the cliffs was chance," he muttered truculently. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
Mok turned his attention on the youth who waited truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
"What am I here for, then?" the visitor demanded, truculently. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
"What're you maulin 'my brother for?" he demanded, truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
“Would you be wanting anything else?” he asked truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
"Don't talk to me that way, Barry," Chessman growled truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
“He comes then to avoid me,” said her son-in-law truculently. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
"Oh, yes," hemmed John Boland, truculently unmindful of the introduction. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Woane looked around half-truculently, but Pardero's glance slid past him. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
Frendon demanded truculently, his long, skinny frame taut with excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Shock Absorber] Reference
He spoke so truculently that Purity expected one of the men to rebuke him. From Wordnik.com. [Heartfire]
"Oh, will I?" said Hugh John, truculently, "isn't what I say true, Toady Lion?". From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Deacon demanded truculently, and then went on to deny the half-caste's knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [A GOBOTO NIGHT] Reference
It may be a fraud yet, 'he said truculently,' and it will require investigation. '. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
The Kanaka drew back truculently, and Grief stepped between to placate his captain. From Wordnik.com. [THE PEARLS OF PARLAY] Reference
"Am reading Seven Types of Ambiguity," said Tuskanini, peering truculently at Snipe. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
“Eh?” cries the young fellow truculently as he raises himself to a kneeling posture. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
The mutinous young waiter brought their food and thumped it truculently down before them. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
He just wants to appropriate it as such by truculently grasping onto the line that he likes. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Hillary's Tough Talk Towards Iran Is "Reflective Of George Bush"] Reference
The stoker laughed truculently, and Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
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