querulous

How To Use querulous In A Sentence

• Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
• Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
• Don't stand looking any longer, for mercy's sake!" called the querulous voice from the house. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
• When I started to crawl along the packed gear with which the wagon was laden my mother said in a tired and querulous voice, "Can't you ever be still a minute, Jesse? Chapter 12
• The female examiner had a querulous voice, which broke off in the middle of sentences, as if she were too shocked to continue. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
• Furthermore, not to be picky, but for a book that complains about poor vocabulary skills among digital readers and writers, I couldn't help but notice that on page sixteen he seems to misuse the word "querulous" in place of what sounds like he intended to be a synonym for "inquisitive. Virtualpolitik
• In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
• But there are querulous voices, conflicting histories, and disputed landscapes.
• I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
• Must poetry always be difficult to understand, asks another querulous voice; the poet's response, to the effect that poetry is a sort of sculpture carved from the stone of language, falls upon deafness.