How to Use garrulous in a Sentence

garrulous

adjective
  • He became more garrulous after drinking a couple of beers.
  • The heat from the wood stove makes the place all the more primal and garrulous.
    David Coggins, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2015
  • Is there something about books that makes customers more garrulous?
    Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Colin is the garrulous front man, pouring wine and ribbing guests.
    Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • The roster rules that are known read like a garrulous alphabet-soup of acronyms and directives.
    Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • My uncle was neither a garrulous Texan type nor a silent type.
    David Dobbs, Slate Magazine, 31 July 2017
  • These days, Bono—this noisy and garrulous man—craves silence.
    David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Among the garrulous adults were hundreds of fluffy brown chicks huddled together in crèches while their parents were away at sea.
    Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Then there’s Tollund Man’s hair, which may end up being the most garrulous part of him.
    Christian Als, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Then there’s Tollund Man’s hair, which may end up being the most garrulous part of him.
    Christian Als, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Grisham is garrulous and funny when talking about himself, much more so than the tone of rectitude in some of his books might suggest.
    Janet Maslin, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • That’s the perspective that informs the book and that raises it above what would in any case be an engagingly garrulous memoir.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Saunders’s witty and garrulous graveyard is filled with semi-spirits in a state of denial.
    Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • There’s even a chat feature so your most garrulous friends can still narrate without rudely interrupting the movie.
    Sara Li, Teen Vogue, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The host Sedat Peker is garrulous, menacing and more than a little grandiose.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • For now, the immediate goals remain modest for the garrulous Walker.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2018
  • Brown, the more garrulous of the two, is fluent in the unself-conscious informality of the West Coast tech scene.
    Haley Sweetland Edwards, Time, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Our server, affable and garrulous about the nuances of the menu, offered a supplement of shaved summer truffle for my risotto.
    Kate Washington, sacbee, 11 May 2018
  • Faqrul, a garrulous Bengali poet in exile, is the narrator’s first guide to the city and a welcome source of light relief.
    Anna Mundow, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Who can resist a source so garrulous, blunt, opinionated and provocative?
    Alan Taylor, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The usually garrulous David Dickey, who runs the station, did not return a text for comment.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Wolfe, keenly aware of the exhausting nature of the play, conducts the garrulous barroom banter along musical theater lines.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • Burly, garrulous Mike Dorety, a steady hand in so many emergencies, did not like to stray far from his wife.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The reclusive cipher turns out to be a garrulous interview subject, so long as the conversations are conducted by e-mail.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • So, these days, Michigan football’s garrulous offensive line coach doesn’t need to say much.
    Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2020
  • Wehmhoff is garrulous and lively; Munson is eloquent and tempered.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Bozenko, a garrulous man with a wide smile, worked in the DEA lab during the day and taught chemistry at a local university in the evenings.
    Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • After all, what used to seem to you a vibrant, garrulous hangout space, or at least a reasonable simulation of one, has become a ghost town.
    Adrian Daub, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Winston calls the kind, garrulous John the man with the ideas; Robinson's musical voice makes those riffs entertaining.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Husband father grandfather brother and a great friend to many Joe was tough kind irascible generous garrulous an entrepreneur and a great guy to have a drink with.
    Hartford Courant, courant.com, 1 Apr. 2018

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