querulous

Example Sentences

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If so, why?—Evelyn’s narrative takes on a querulous, panicking tone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Against a long and attenuated trill of the viola, Mehretu’s backgrounds become a lurid green or mysterious blue and the black lines of the paintings start to look more querulous.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022

Fiennes shows us the conceit, followed by the querulous selfishness, with which Göth briefly wrestles with the idea that he might actually want to be good.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021

The version she released was much more ambitious, her dramatic vocal performance propelled by querulous strings and surging synths.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2019

Christmas carols were in the air; they issued from the radio of the four women and mixed strangely with Miami’s sunshine and the cries of the querulous, never thoroughly silent seagulls.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote