How to Use truculence in a Sentence

truculence

noun

• 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
• 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 is a pandemic of mindless truculence in the country.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• There, she’s known by guards and other inmates for her truculence, even her violence.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Mike Babcock, a proponent of truculence in his charges, saw his bosses’ patience run out Wednesday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• His was a presidency built atop mood and resentment and truculence.
  — Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Some liberal Democrats want their party to do more to force compliance with oversight requests, concerned the response to the Trump administration's truculence has been too timid.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2019
• One can agree that this says something unpleasant about the Furtwängler persona, suggesting a nearly atavistic truculence.
  — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• 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
• Pompeo traveled through the eastern Mediterranean last month, in an implicit rebuke of Erdogan’s truculence.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Give no ground to your critics, Mr. Bannon urged the president, with characteristic truculence.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The irascibility and truculence of his predecessor was gone.
  — ABC News, 13 June 2021
• 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
• The swerving between cooperation and truculence has reflected how Trump has handled the investigation, leaving even some allies scratching their heads.
  — Chris Megerian, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• This is a reality the PRC denies with fluctuating, but currently intensifying, truculence.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 22 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024