Example Sentences

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“If they want to have a debate on this issue, let’s do it,” López Obrador said pugnaciously.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2023

Now, 40-odd years later, Alito was pugnaciously demanding to know whether Harvard had deceived his predecessor about the true nature of what it had been doing.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

Cuddles are not really Chaya’s thing, but if she is in the mood, she will play pugnaciously with a bale of hay as if it is a giant ball.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2021

By then Mr. Farren had earned a reputation as a pugnaciously literate, effusively opinionated writer for International Times, known as IT, a leading counterculture weekly in Britain that he also edited for a time.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013

He drove fast, pugnaciously, darting into empty spaces, nudging other cars out of their lanes.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy