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

Brave Orchid is querulous and in her way indomitable, but she will not draw her grievances on her Biggest Daughter’s back and send her forth to conquer California.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 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

A secret service agent went to her rescue but she waved at him, a querulous sort of rebuke, attempting to recover herself.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2019

From up the stairs we could hear the querulous old voices of the boarders demanding to know what had happened.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep