Example Sentences

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“The tourists who querulously inquire about the ‘atmosphere on the island’ give me cause to shake my head,” Vanessa Croft Thompson, a 34-year-old teacher on the island, posted on her Facebook page.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2019

“Nothing about this seems quite right,” he said, almost querulously.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 23, 2015

Someone demanded querulously from the back, "But how do you know they’re unwanted until you try?"

From Newsweek • Mar. 20, 2015

Lady in the Lake has a powerful scene, when Marlowe, having found himself in a suspect's house and bluffed his way past a woman who querulously announces herself as the landlady, searches the premises.

From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2010

“He’s canceled two meetings with me,” Johnson said querulously to an aide.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge