How to Use testy in a Sentence

testy

adjective

• That’s about as testy as things got.
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 2 May 2026
• That set up a testy third-and-long.
  — Jay Plotkin, Austin American Statesman, 15 Nov. 2025
• This is a testy day for romance.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 15 May 2026
• The second head-to-head is even more testy.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
• The game also had some chippy and testy vibes.
  — ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
• Seinfeld gets testy when a server tries to push the toast on him.
  — Madison Roberts, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2022
• And please forgive Cignetti for getting a tad testy.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
• Sometimes, Lowry even gets testy with his teammates or coach.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2020
• Things got testy shortly thereafter.
  — Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
• Here's what to expect at a hearing that's likely to get testy.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• From there his chip ran long and left, leaving a testy nine-footer to save par that didn’t drop.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• The meeting became testy, Rose said.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
• Hontzas, who is known to get testy with customers who try to save seats or leave the front door propped open, had to laugh.
  — Bob Carlton | [email protected], al, 26 May 2022
• Things turned a little testy at the end of the second period.
  — Pat Graham, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• The end of the match included some testy exchanges between teams mid-match.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• Trump, meanwhile, fired off a string of testy tweets Sunday morning.
  — Alan Levin, Bloomberg.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• And Soffer took a pistol out of his pocket once and held it to his side when things got testy.
  — Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2020
• This isn’t the first time she’s gotten testy about technology.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
• This should be a testy negotiation, but one that results in a new deal.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• But that changed in the stretch of roughly one hour when there were four testy episodes involving players from both teams.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
• The sounds of booing were heard in the second quarter — that’s right, a testy and uneasy crowd just four games in.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• That prompted a testy response by the chancellor, who’s seeking a fourth term.
  — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Not so, said the top Senate Democrat as the long, late hours led to testy moments.
  — Stephen Ohlemacher and Marcy Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Trump over-enunciates, fluffs the line, snarls ultra-whitely, tries again, fluffs it again, swats the lectern with a testy hand.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• Talks have been publicly testy, with lots of rhetoric and messaging that the union is prepared to strike if key demands aren’t met.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• The final two-plus minutes is where Renacci's hit went from testy to flying a bit off the rails.
  — Seth A. Richardson, cleveland.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• After six weeks of living in the same hotels, sharing the same meals, seeing the same faces, things can start to get a bit testy.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• Congress had just overruled one of Bolsonaro’s vetoes in a testy back-and-forth over the budget.
  — Vincent Bevins, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2020
• When things got a little testy at home with my father and us boys, my mother would go to the piano and music would fill the whole house.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• Clara is quite close to her aunt and father, while — as these relationships so often go — testier with her mom.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025