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Six example sentences with truculent, each labelled with its topic.
The minister grew truculent under questioning, jabbing a finger at the committee and refusing to answer the simplest point.
Politics
The truculent sheriff in the second act contradicts everyone, including his own deputies, and the film is funnier for it.
Movies
Johnson could be truculent in company, contradicting a guest twice in one sentence and daring anyone to take offence.
Literature
The truculent center argued every whistle with the referees and picked up two technical fouls before halftime.
Basketball
A truculent supplier answered every question with a threat to walk away, so the buyer quietly found another one.
Business
The truculent ambassador insulted his hosts at the first banquet, and the treaty talks ended before they had begun.
History
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