How to Use argumentative in a Sentence

argumentative

adjective

• He became more argumentative during the debate.
• When asked to stop by store management, one man was argumentative.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Again, this argumentative tack not only falls flat but backfires.
  — Elie Honig, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• Almandinger, until then argumentative and defiant, broke down and asked for a garbage can to throw up in.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2018
• Be kind to others and yourselves around this time, as this energy can be argumentative.
  — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 1 June 2021
• Curtis became argumentative, and the two men spoke over each other.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021
• Henry had tired of his bold, argumentative wife, who, like Catherine, had been unable to bear a male child.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
• The quote from Baltimore is part of its argumentative bedrock.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
• The officer talked to the driver, who was acting argumentative and questioned why he was pulled over.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
• Be smart and steer clear of controversial topics that will be argumentative.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
• Hosts sometimes have an argumentative style or adopt rhetorical strategies such as irony, jokes, and humor.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May 2026
• People can become impatient and argumentative if things aren’t done quickly enough for their tastes.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 14 Apr. 2021
• It was noted the motorist was very argumentative with the officer.
  — cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
• But machines are aeons away from being able to recreate rhetorical and argumentative flow across paragraphs and pages.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• There’s an eerie gap between the raucous and argumentative world of the Internet and the silence of the streets.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
• The argumentative Frenchwoman gave a small squeak every time her shotgun went off—and hit more pheasants than anyone else.
  — John Lanchester, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2017
• Johnson comes from a large and argumentative family.
  — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• Officers spoke with him and a passenger; police said the pair was argumentative and tried to get out of the car against officers' orders.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2022
• There is no place for violence for these particular types of minor, or even just argumentative, disputes.
  — Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
• Officers contacted the women, and one claimed the man was harassing her and the other was just argumentative.
  — cleveland, 20 July 2022
• Bill Gates was also said to be very critical and argumentative in the early days of Microsoft.
  — Alice Hearing, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022
• Note that this is never violent or argumentative, just annoying to the other parent, and probably to the kid.
  — Carolyn Hax, Philly.com, 24 June 2017
• The woman claimed to be ill while continuing to be disruptive, argumentative and abusive to police.
  — cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
• Note that this is never violent or argumentative, just annoying to the other parent, and probably the kid.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2017
• That’s not to sound argumentative with the refereeing or anything like that or degrading toward Valpo.
  — Michael Osipoff, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2021
• But Noble and Tripodis said the new executive order leaves them more open to argumentative customers.
  — Lauren Saria, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2021
• Friends and acquaintances of the time recalled the couple's deeply political and, at times, argumentative nature.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2020
• The man became argumentative after he was told to disband his first party of about 50 people, the state's attorney's office said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 28 Sep. 2020
• Same too to some degree about the speed of the code, though this is certainly more argumentative in that the speed is something that those using the code are bound to directly experience.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 July 2022
• Once on board, the rider became argumentative with the driver and threw a water bottle, striking the plex-glass partition next to the driver's seat, police said.
  — Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2021