I suppose that means I am to be sent back to the main army," Enoch said just a trifle petulantly when they were so far away from General Dickinson that he could not overhear the remark.
It is evident these young rebels have been well schooled, colonel, and you will never arrive at the truth save by harsh measures," one of the officers saidpetulantly to him who was conducting the examination.
She petulantly declined to take it, and selected another chair for herself.
Sibylla petulantly threw the French book from her lap upon the table, and it fell down with its page open.
Sibylla turned her head away petulantly from her husband.
I, at any rate, have, so far given you none," she petulantly broke in.
But she petulantly said to herself, "I can't always be exerting myself for him as if he were a sick child.
Darcy's lips slackened petulantly down at the corners.
Darcy, noting the error in her name, wondered petulantly why Gloria didn't introduce them in proper form.
The latter petulantly declared that "since you will misconceive our endeavors, we shall not lose more of our labors upon you"; and they departed to Maine, where they met with a less mortifying reception.
They are brushed petulantly aside and the sleeper composes himself to rest once more.
So he needed sleep, he petulantlytold things as he rubbed the back of his neck, wondered why lounges were made like that, and turned over.
Dryden petulantly and indecently denies the heroism of Adam, because he was overcome; but there is no reason why the hero should not be unfortunate, except established practice, since success and virtue do not go necessarily together.
To these notes an answer was written by L'Estrange, in a pamphlet, petulantly called, No Blind Guides.
Do make haste,' she remarks petulantly as her brother pauses to speak to a passing man who looks like a dealer.
She had to have several dresses to wear, according to the time of day, and she had to have new ones very often, or she might be told petulantly and pointedly by her mistress that 'one gets so weary of seeing the same dresses every day.
Her eyes wandered petulantly to the rainy sky outside, and the high-walled college opposite.
As for the doctors, he repeated petulantlythat they were all fools--it was only a question of degree.
If she had often petulantly felt at Oxford that he was too good, too high above her to be of much use to her, she might perhaps have felt it doubly now.
She was bending over her father, with an arm about his shoulders; she seemed to be pleading with him, and he petulantly setting her aside.
Now, as I went along to his room, I wondered petulantly what new thing this was that he wished to say to me.
As if heartbroken, he took his last look at me, petulantly flinging aside his mother's hand.
He yanked off his stockings petulantly and dropped the rest of his clothes in a heap on the sand.
Nothing in my nature responded to its atmosphere; or, if so, petulantlyand with a kind of helpless antagonism, like the first cry of the new-born infant in the old life.
Some one called out petulantly that a door had got unfastened, and bade a nurse go shut it, for it blew on her.
You are not my servant, except in name," and I turned my head petulantly away.
Herbert started up from his seat, throwing the brush which he held petulantly on to the floor.
She tossed her head andpetulantly pushed him from her toward the stage.
My friend," he said half petulantly to Dicky, as he tossed the plans for a new palace to his secretary and dismissed him, "are you not happy here?
When appealed to, the British Consul had petulantly told her that Donovan Pasha was doing more important work.
She pulled out her handkerchief petulantly and wiped them.
But if she did not go to him, he would presently come to her to ask in a petulantlyaffectionate way whether she had forgotten him.
He added petulantly that he wished Schmidt were with him still, because only Schmidt could be clever enough to catch himself.
Petulantly I threw away my cigar and went up to my room.
A crane rumbled forward, grappled a hundred-ton ladle, a fabulous iron pot, and petulantly deposited it under a channel extending out from the base of the furnace where they had been stationed.
At intervals he spoke, in a thinner, higher voice than customary, petulantly uneasy, or with a familiar, sardonic inflection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petulantly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
