How to Use petulant in a Sentence

petulant

adjective

• Her tone was petulant and angry.
• Instead we got stuck with a petulant child (who has grown up since then).
  — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• The rest of the sports world sees a petulant young star and a coach, who might be in over his head.
  — Kent Somers, AZCentral.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• Fessy is left alone in the volcano to whine like a petulant child.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2021
• Friends told me to brace myself for the petulant movie star, the diva.
  — Devan Díaz, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
• Removing those wings was a dark, petulant touch from the goths of the high seas.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• And as a petulant curator of my own tastes, this was enough to turn my nose at it.
  — Bolu Babalola, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 May 2021
• She's come off spoiled, petulant and worst of all privileged.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
• But, of course, the petulant president would rather take his lectern and stay home.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2020
• And Bellingham has become a petulant bore in terms of his ego and mouth.
  — Guillermo Rai, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
• Even Pontius seems to have dropped his petulant glare for the time being.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
• And then in Season 2, that petulant child is ready to quit and throw a hissy fit.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2026
• What’s more — the entire thing feels a bit petulant in the face of the looming election.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• Your rights now depend on the grievances of one petulant old man and his shameless enablers.
  — Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
• But that car was a boost bomb, with torque steer to shame a Saab and the demeanor of a petulant teenager.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 20 Nov. 2020
• This is more than the frustrated outburst of a petulant woman.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• All her songs — fast tempo or slow — strike the same petulant, egotistical note.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• The young girl is petulant and bored at times, playing cards and listening to her grandma’s old-timey records.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024
• Smith's Dickinson, though, is nothing short of petulant teen rebel.
  — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2019
• His petulant begging for a drop at the Memorial did not help matters).
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• The film doesn’t make any effort to explain why Alma loves this petulant genius.
  — Lindsey Bahr, kansascity, 18 Jan. 2018
• Like a petulant child tired of losing, Beijing tossed the entire thing into the garbage bin.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2021
• This whole thing makes Sylvie seem so petulant and childish … really not like herself at all!
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
• At her very best, Emily behaves like a petulant pre-adolescent spoiled imp.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
• Heath said that contract dispute shouldn’t raise a flag on Molino being petulant.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2017
• Keep the customer happy no matter how ridiculous or petulant the request.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2002
• This petulant man, who wields awesome power, also has the nuclear codes.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
• Trump’s term that maybe the petulant and mean-spirited president would grow and become a better man.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• The 19-member cast conjured up an array of voices, from shy but strong-willed to angry and petulant.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 May 2021
• As the emotional child in his family, he was imbued with a streak of petulant darkness, which runs subtly through all of his work.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020