Examples of petulance in a Sentence
I do not appreciate your petulance and eagerness to argue.
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For all his bombast online, for instance, Marcus has said that today’s chatbots are a legitimate breakthrough, just far from the breakthrough; for all of Altman’s petulance, OpenAI’s latest large reasoning models rely on new approaches not so dissimilar from Marcus’s own, decades-old ideas.
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Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
That love affair with Moss was the foundation and the bulldozer to Culture Club, at times keeping George grounded and at others sparking the singer's legendary petulance.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 June 2025
While Jean Seberg once imbued Cécile with girlish petulance, McInerny gives the role an electric charge of ambivalence.
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Seeing Green Day live is kind of brat, the petulance of Armstrong’s early years well in line with what Charli tries to do now.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2025
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Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
That love affair with Moss was the foundation and the bulldozer to Culture Club, at times keeping George grounded and at others sparking the singer's legendary petulance.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 7 June 2025
While Jean Seberg once imbued Cécile with girlish petulance, McInerny gives the role an electric charge of ambivalence.
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Seeing Green Day live is kind of brat, the petulance of Armstrong’s early years well in line with what Charli tries to do now.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Petulance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petulance. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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petulance
noun
pet·u·lance
ˈpech-ə-lən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being petulant
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