Sentence example with the word 'pettishly'

pettishly

Definition adv. in a petulant manner

Last update: October 20, 2015


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It is nearly always seen paired, though the pairs collect in prodigious flocks; and, when these are broken up, its shrill but musical cry of "tu-lup," "tu-lup," somewhat pettishly repeated, helps to draw attention to it.   [Please select]

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"Joe," I interrupted, pettishly, "how can you call me, sir."   [Please select]

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Corney, pettishly; 'I shall never get anotherlike him.'   [Please select]

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"Presently, afterwards," said Raskolnikov, waving it off pettishly.   [Please select]

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"And I suppose that you have accepted," Aline said, pettishly.   [Please select]

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Millicent asked pettishly.   [Please select]

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"There are plenty of other Roman maidens who appear there," Nero said pettishly.   [Please select]

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I pettishly asked her why she did not call a domestic to do it.   [Please select]

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"I suppose," she added pettishly, "the prospect of being speedily released from our company has wrought a cure on her shattered nerves."   [Please select]

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'Really, Rat,' said the Mole, quite pettishly, 'I think we'd had enough of this folly.'   [Please select]

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He made no more references to Johns Hopkins, slept like a child, and railed almost pettishly at his restricted diet.   [Please select]

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