How To Use Garrulous In A Sentence
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They are basically warm people, albeit a bit garrulous at times with some who profess, quite irritatingly, to be the all-knowing type.
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The cell phone was never envisioned as an instrument of torture that garrulous pinheads could use to inflict pain on their fellow commuters, yet this is what it has become.
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But when I asked him for his opinion of missile-defense programs, the garrulous old scientist suddenly clammed up.
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By his side for most of the time was a bespectacled, softly spoken and garrulous man.
Times, Sunday Times
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The garrulous waves ceaselessly talked of hidden treasures, mocking the ignorance that knew not their meaning.
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In many other particulars he enfeebles, dandifies, and sentimentalises Dante's fierce, abrupt tragedy; holding the reader by the button while he prattles in his garrulous way of Paulo's "taste" --
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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He is unstintingly enthusiastic, even garrulous.
Times, Sunday Times
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He rages with all the garrulous articulacy of the legal autodidact, narrowly educated after years of court cases, appeals and disappointments.
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“Not I,” said I, and sat grimly watching his face under the yellow paraffine flare, as he drank himself into a garrulous misery.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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He was not a man for garrulous name-dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tomorrow, high school playgrounds all over Scotland will again resonate with the sound of garrulous teenagers.
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Vaudevillish, too, are the principals, Nat, an old Jew, and Midge, an aged black man, who keep meeting, garrulously and querulously (but symbiotically underneath), on a bench in Central Park.
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He is a garrulous cockney from the old school of tabloid journalism.
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Her work for children is a curious mixture of Victorian grotesquerie and post-modern knowingness: a cast of eccentrics with an equally garrulous and intrusive narrator.
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Usually this involves a few perfunctory sentences but yesterday he was feeling unusually garrulous and it took me a while to get away from him.
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Most people find Her a little garrulous and oversolicitous, but She cannot be accused of not caring.
'Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives'
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Stanley Smith, a Philadelphia lawyer, called his garrulous group to order in the Penn Athletic Club one night last week.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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A spell, certainly, was over everyone, and then the exorciser became human, and jested deliciously till the early morning, when, as I went home through the still garrulous and peopled streets, I saw the last flutter of flags and streamers between night and dawn.
Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
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He's senior, garrulous, and well connected-he has been one of the organizers of PQE, an invitation-only conference, since it began-but he is undoubtably very, very sharp and well worth listening to
Ars Technica
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Rafael is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
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My garrulous neighbour had given away the secret.
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He might almost have been called garrulous," Pamela agreed.
The Pawns Count
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On the first floor, I see a crowd of garrulous men who've decided there's more to life than watching sports in the living room.
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Garrulous, passionate and good-humoured, 35-year-old Khan is an immediately engaging personality who radiates confidence.
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All this time the poor creature was discussing with herself as to whether she had disobeyed orders, in a kind of garrulous way that made me fear much for her capability of retaining anything secret if she was questioned.
Curious, if True Strange Tales
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A novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-teller; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl.
My Novel — Complete
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We become garrulous; hair thick with dust and salt, knuckles burnt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rose realized that the woman's name was probably ironic; a magpie was a garrulous bird, but this one spoke only briefly.
Question Quest
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At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous.
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A garrulous former pharmacist from Minnesota, he became the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
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J.R. was friendly and garrulous and would answer my endless questions, so I enjoyed visiting with the fellow.
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Miss Thompson, loud - voiced and garrulous, was evidently quite willing to gossip.
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mossback," or a "garrulous dotard," and with singular irreverence they took delight in twitting him upon his senility and in pestering him with divers new-fangled notions altogether distasteful, not to say shocking, to a gentleman of his years.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales
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Montbrison afforded me the main matter of the sixth and seventh stories; and that, moreover, I once journeyed to Caer Idion and talked for some two hours with Richard Holland (whom I found a very old and garrulous and cheery person), and got of him the matter of the eighth tale in this dizain, together with much information as concerns the sixth and the seventh.
Chivalry
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If I'm garrulous, it means I'm procrastinating, and I should be chastised accordingly.
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At such times, electronic music presents a singularly cold shoulder, disco is too upbeat, jazz too knotty, new wave too garrulous.
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Clarkson is the gangling, unpredictable bringer of disaster; Turner is the slightly pompous straight man in the flesh, Turner is the more garrulous, Clarkson a little more earnest, though only a fraction.
Potted Potter: Harry in a hurry
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The garrulous storeowner sometimes cut up summer sausage and cheese and joined us on the porch where we tilted back frosty green soda bottles and solved the problems of the world.
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hearing and telling the latest news" (no undignified or improper mode of recreation in a city where newspapers were unknown), whilst they are condemned as "garrulous," "frivolous," "full of curiosity," and
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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The check-in assistant seemed to be in a particularly garrulous mood, chatting with his colleague while he printed out the boarding card.
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Of course we haven't encouraged your talking much up to this time, and you don't strike me as a very rapid fire speaker, not exactly what is called garrulous, you know.
The High Calling
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Teddy, whose relentlessly logical patter utterly fulfills his observation that 'I lack the internal editing function most people take for granted,' is the anti-Spenser - unmasculine, weak, klutzy and hilariously garrulous.
The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool by Richard Yancey: Book summary
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Louis's garrulous mother, Gerty, has flown up from South Africa to be our cook, and grills up tasty servings of klipspringer and gemsbok, which we wash down with Windhoek lagers, supposedly brewed to German purity rules.
Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
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That is practically what Michelet did, and though the garrulous old gossip drivelled endlessly about matters of supreme unimportance and ecstasized in his mild way over trivial anecdotes which he expanded beyond all proportion, and though his sentimentality and chauvinism sometimes discredited his quite plausible conjectures, he was nevertheless the only French historian who had overcome the limitation of time and made another age live anew before our eyes.
Là-bas
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Maybe, as in the past, the garrulous president's words were nothing more than political grandstanding.
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I feel positively gushy and garrulous this fine day.
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He may be insecure, but his insecurity expresses itself not in egomania or depression, but in a garrulous, love-me-do amiability.
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He did not trust the garrulous president and his team not to try to stage some operatic intervention.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, he can be garrulous on films, capitalism and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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Half garrulously, and like a shallow brook might brawl across a shelvy bottom, the rhythmic little changeling thus began: --
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10
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Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars -- dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune -- and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses.
Cabbages and Kings
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Noël, an observant neighbour in Jamaica, found her garrulous, snobbish and socially aggressive, while success had embittered him.
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Being a rather open, garrulous fellow myself, I was impressed.
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Miss Letitia presided over the table in garrulous majesty.
The Window at the White Cat
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He introduces a character from his last novel, the garrulous, difficult ‘literary novelist’ Elizabeth.
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He is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
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We become garrulous; hair thick with dust and salt, knuckles burnt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both places were full of titled guests invited (or commanded, rather) by Kralta, and we drove in sleighs and skated and tobogganed and revelled by evening and pleasured by night, and it was Vienna in the Arctic, with the Prince always on hand, bland and affable as ever with his popsies around him (one of 'em a new bird, an Italian, who'd replaced the garrulous blonde, no doubt on Kralta's orders) and it was all such enormous fun that I was heartily sick of it.
Watershed
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He is the type not of the charmingly nutty but of the exhaustingly garrulous professor.
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This may mean rationing the air time of particularly garrulous individuals.
Training with N.L.P.
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The general isn't what you'd call a garrulous man.
The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
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He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous, -- but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes.
Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the
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Adrian is not what one would call a garrulous person at the best of times.
The Light of Scarthey
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Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
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Having a topic of conversation banned must be a particular strain for someone as garrulous as him.
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This debate engaged all but the most garrulous of the chattering classes rather less than the issue of how many angels can stand on the point of a pin.
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Next day, I was in my surgery, listening patiently to an elderly lady from the village, some relation to the soup cook, who was rather garrulously detailing her daughter-in-law's bout with the morbid sore throat that theoretically had something to do with her current complaint of quinsy, though I couldn't at the moment see the connection.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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They wax garrulous when mikes are thrust at them, and queue up, or SMS furiously to get on to reality shows.
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He keeps things simple compared to the more garrulous contributions of his bandmates, opting for cleanly articulated line rather than a thick spattering of notes.
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But when I asked him for his opinion of missile-defense programs, the garrulous old scientist suddenly clammed up.
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Edwin impatiently interrupted the other's threatened garrulousness.
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Seven years old, spoiled, garrulous, and loose-bowelled he might be, but he could wear my colours in the National any day.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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I love the garrulous, argumentative people, with their speech, which boasts impressively rounded vowels.
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By his side for most of the time was a bespectacled, softly spoken and garrulous man.
Times, Sunday Times
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They all turned to look at Ursula Harris, whose face was crimson, her chestnut hair in disarray like a baby bird's fluff, whose laugh was audible even here, a high garrulous tinkle.
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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On her arrival at the monastery she learned from her garrulous nun-attendant that the _Amban_ had been summoned to Pekin, where a revolution had taken place and his friends there hoped to make him
The Jungle Girl
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Ian isn't normally this garrulous!
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He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a stubby cigarette holder.
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The role of Quentin, garrulously veering from self-pity to self-justification, is a difficult one.
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I was a very old lady - much of my physical strength abated - and old people by reason of age were almost sure to become garrulous, talked too much (if they have impatient kinspeople) and were set in their ways of thinking as well as of saying and doing things, and are old-fogyish in regard to modern methods and activities.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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These streets are the marketplace for garrulous gamine, who ekes out a living selling flowers to wealthy slummers.
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And it's always an unsurprising surprise to hear the garrulous honesty of politicians talking about the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why GM Matters excels when Holstein draws on the extensive access he was given to GM product executives such as garrulous Vice-Chairman Robert A. Lutz or designer Bob Boniface.
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For the garrulous voice of the crier is the voice of a hired servant, the words read by the proconsul from a written document constitute a judgement, which, once read, may not have one letter added to it or taken away, but so soon as it is delivered, is set down in the provincial records.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
