Examples of petulance in a Sentence
I do not appreciate your petulance and eagerness to argue.
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Jimmy Butler did not have to consider the fallout of petulance because he already was known as petulant.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
Schwartzman pours all of the requisite bitterness and petulance into Ash, including a few very funny tantrums.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
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.
—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
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025
Schwartzman pours all of the requisite bitterness and petulance into Ash, including a few very funny tantrums.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
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.
—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
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“Petulance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petulance. Accessed 20 Aug. 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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