Truculent is an English word with synonyms like aggressive. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Truculent in a sentence
Truculent meaning
- Cruel or savage.
- Defiant or uncompromising.
- Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
Synonyms of Truculent
Using Truculent
- The main meaning on this page is: Cruel or savage. | Defiant or uncompromising. | Eager or quick to argue, fight or start a conflict.
- Useful related words include: aggressive.
Context around Truculent
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Truculent
- In this selection, "truculent" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seem, articles, demeanour, bartolo and irish stand out and add context to how "truculent" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a truculent bartolo in and cummings s truculent demeanour meant. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "truculent" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with truculent
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In a regular conflict, refusing negotiation might seem truculent. (9 words)
Mr Johnson claimed Mr Cummings’s “truculent” demeanour meant “he failed to capture much sympathy”. (15 words)
A truculent Bartolo, in his three-minute long video, is seen arguing that the police was unlawfully trespassing on his property. (21 words)
The efforts of the Sadozai heirs of Timur to impose a true monarchy on the truculent Pashtun tribes, and their efforts to rule absolutely and without the advice of the other major Pashtun tribal leaders, were ultimately unsuccessful. (38 words)
If contemporary political analysis amounts to unrestrained use of adjectives and invective, then I offer the following for this and like articles: truculent, trivial and tedious. (26 words)
A truculent Bartolo, in his three-minute long video, is seen arguing that the police was unlawfully trespassing on his property. (21 words)
Example sentences (6)
In a regular conflict, refusing negotiation might seem truculent.
Mr Johnson claimed Mr Cummings’s “truculent” demeanour meant “he failed to capture much sympathy”.
A truculent Bartolo, in his three-minute long video, is seen arguing that the police was unlawfully trespassing on his property.
My truculent Irish friend makes a point of telling anyone and everyone that he’s a purple, neither red nor blue.
If contemporary political analysis amounts to unrestrained use of adjectives and invective, then I offer the following for this and like articles: truculent, trivial and tedious.
The efforts of the Sadozai heirs of Timur to impose a true monarchy on the truculent Pashtun tribes, and their efforts to rule absolutely and without the advice of the other major Pashtun tribal leaders, were ultimately unsuccessful.