How to Use garrulous in a Sentence

garrulous

adjective
  • He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.
  • The heat from the wood stove makes the place all the more primal and garrulous.
    David Coggins, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2015
  • The idea was to capture the garrulous energy of Streisand’s cabaret act, which was one of the hottest tickets in town.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Then there’s Tollund Man’s hair, which may end up being the most garrulous part of him.
    Christian Als, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Then there’s Tollund Man’s hair, which may end up being the most garrulous part of him.
    Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • These days, Bono—this noisy and garrulous man—craves silence.
    David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Bozenko, a garrulous man with a wide smile, worked in the DEA lab during the day and taught chemistry at a local university in the evenings.
    Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Burly, garrulous Mike Dorety, a steady hand in so many emergencies, did not like to stray far from his wife.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Brown, the more garrulous of the two, is fluent in the unself-conscious informality of the West Coast tech scene.
    Haley Sweetland Edwards, Time, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Colin is the garrulous front man, pouring wine and ribbing guests.
    Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • The roster rules that are known read like a garrulous alphabet-soup of acronyms and directives.
    Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • Not that the players were so garrulous in winning, either.
    Dave Eggers, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Faqrul, a garrulous Bengali poet in exile, is the narrator’s first guide to the city and a welcome source of light relief.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The host Sedat Peker is garrulous, menacing and more than a little grandiose.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • Mike Denne, 69, a garrulous locksmith in Mitchell, was no activist, not a vocal anti-masker by any means.
    Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
  • My uncle was neither a garrulous Texan type nor a silent type.
    David Dobbs, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • Is there something about books that makes customers more garrulous?
    Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Graying and brawny, garrulous and darkly funny in the way of soldiers, Oleg A. carried an AK-47.
    Jeré Longman, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • The Moon is pairing up with amorous Venus in your garrulous 11th house, bringing your connections front and center.
    Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022
  • As the garrulous John and the blunter Winston, Robinson and Henning make an excellent pair, forced to rely on each other.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The usually garrulous David Dickey, who runs the station, did not return a text for comment.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Among the garrulous adults were hundreds of fluffy brown chicks huddled together in crèches while their parents were away at sea.
    Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Winston calls the kind, garrulous John the man with the ideas; Robinson's musical voice makes those riffs entertaining.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Grisham is garrulous and funny when talking about himself, much more so than the tone of rectitude in some of his books might suggest.
    Janet Maslin, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • Maali Almeida, the garrulous narrator, has a unique perspective on the conflicts ravaging his nation in the late 1980s.
    Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • That’s the perspective that informs the book and that raises it above what would in any case be an engagingly garrulous memoir.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • So, these days, Michigan football’s garrulous offensive line coach doesn’t need to say much.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2020
  • Even the garrulous Javier Miliei, whose primary results and recent polls put in a good position ahead of the real election, seems to have turned it down a notch.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Saunders’s witty and garrulous graveyard is filled with semi-spirits in a state of denial.
    Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Chris Stirewalt, the garrulous political analyst, is best known, perhaps, for his tenure at Fox News Channel.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 28 Feb. 2024

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