Petulance in a sentence

Candide's remaining sheep are stolen, and Candide is fined heavily by a Dutch magistrate for petulance over the theft.

A benign, foxlike smile that can slip away in a split second to reveal a volcanic flurry of petulance.

Tyrrell Hatton will be fined for his petulance in the European tour's season-ending championship.

Fernandes showed petulance not befitting of a club captain, receiving a yellow card for arguing with referee Peter Bankes in the closing stages.

They don’t want the insults, the petulance, the constant denigrating of America.

Anthony Martial was stupid in letting Erik Lamela get to him, and became responsible for an act of petulance that was never going to go unpunished with VAR.

Richarlison the star man, two goals, an amusing pigeon dance and some encouraging signs of petulance as well, which all contributes to the gaiety of nations.

That pique and petulance followed him onto the stage in Nashville.

Between the Trump team’s disgraceful middle school-level petulance and the Democrat’s dour, school-marmish finger-pointing, it’s hard to feel noble backing either side.

As played by Michelle Trachtenberg, Dawn was a perennial thorn in Buffy’s side, often causing needless problems through her own teenage petulance and penchant for being in peril.

This Nigel syndrome is causing nightmares robbing this man of his much-needed sleep and driving him wild and crazy, hunting down every media house to make a spectacle of his petulance.

A republic whose self-obsessed, entitled rulers discard the traditional virtues of courage, dignity and public-service in favour of their preferred vices – self-indulgence, petulance and duplicity.

The 21-year-old, who has been England’s player of the tournament, was initially shown a yellow card by the referee, but VAR recommended a review and the yellow card was upgraded to red after the act of petulance.

In a twist of irony, however, doing so and becoming a god leads Death to see Thanos as her superior, and she is left still unwilling to speak to him (which leads the Mad Titan down a path of petulance and toxic masculinity).