Example Sentences

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Unconcerned with appearance, all about winning, filled with equal parts garrulousness and gratitude.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2024

Hence the plague of pompous garrulousness — of officials insulting the public’s intelligence with bromides no one believes.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

The intelligent, high-spirited Hardenberg family—Teutonic Knoxes, really—are brought alive in astonishingly brief, elusive vignettes, fleeting chapters closer to the eloquent insufficiency of poems than to the reflexive garrulousness of fictional prose.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

It was a vintage bit of Clinton garrulousness, and the former president had little appetite to cut it short, despite the increasingly urgent pleas from aides behind him and Mr. Harkin.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2014

He felt a garrulousness coming on him and he was frightened at the impulse.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck