Example Sentences

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Emery cut an animated figure in the technical area as he tetchily issued instructions to his side, with both Olsen and Clement Lenglet facing his ire.

From BBC • May 2, 2024

Though Groves was the overall boss, the project’s scientific management was divided, rather tetchily, between Lawrence and Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

Well before the second world war, when Los Angeles was still civically insecure and tetchily provincial, sitting presidents were welcomed with singing schoolchildren and symbolic keys and citrus and bouquets and long proclamations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022

“Just like everyone watches me, I’m watching them,” she says, tetchily, of her rowdy employees.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2019

“Who said anything about muzzle?” cried Ramball tetchily.

From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Pears, Charles