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Meanings of petulant child in anglès

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Usage of petulant child in anglès
1
She shrieked out, very much after the manner of a petulant child.
Verner's Pride
2
For all of his sixty-plus years he looked like a petulant child.
Hunter's moon: a novel
3
She did not want to sound like an impatient, petulant child.
Rage of the Dragon
4
The creature retreated from the approaching youth like a petulant child.
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
5
I snap at my son and act like a petulant child over nothing.
The Irish Times
6
It sounded more like a petulant child having a game.
Ghosts
7
He shouted through it for me to go away, sounding like a petulant child.
Revival
8
The voice of MacNair was the quiet voice with which one sooths a petulant child.
The Gun-Brand
9
He had given the petulant child the half of his kingdom, and she was blue.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
10
He pouted like a petulant child who had been sent to bed without his supper.
Don't cry
11
Just as if she were humoring a petulant child.
Darkness revealed
12
Like a petulant child all I said was, "This aged well."
Radio NZ
13
The gasping protestations of the petulant child at Starbucks.
Wired
14
Nature, indeed, here is like some spoilt, petulant child.
Robert Elsmere
15
Instead you sit and sulk like a petulant child.'
Gladiatrix
16
I'm aware that I must sound like a petulant child, but she brought up the subject.
The whore of babylon, a memoir
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Petulant child through the time
Petulant child across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common