Sentence examples for gets insolent from inspiring English sources

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The conductor and two trainment finally put him off the train when he gets insolent.

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They get insolent and pouty and the woman in question feels the need to either undercut her own reaction with an apology or some olive branch of a joke to cut the tension.

Renato draws his sword when they make insolent remarks about his veiled companion.

Watching Thurman, who ducks her head and makes eyes at Travolta and can't seem to find a character to play, I missed Rene Russo's insolent stare from "Get Shorty".

And he can get figurative phrases right: "The defiant pork, insolent in its milky bath, willing this recipe to fail" conveys exactly how we have all felt about recalcitrant ingredients.

All those insolent travel website owners think they can get away with using the word 'book' in their names because people can 'book' holidays, hotels and whatnot on their websites.

Film Noir Classics (12) "If you ain't got socks you can't pull 'em up, can you?" Insolent dialogue, moral ambiguity, a sultry dame (Googie Withers), a put-upon girlfriend (Gene Tierney) and a bravura performance from the excellent Richard Widmark, as weaselly conman Harry Fabian ("an artist without an art"), are at the heart of Jules Dassin's sensational Night and the City.

"His idea was a woman with a masculine approach, insolent, someone who could give as good as she got".

The New North seems so insolent, in fact, that some Americans already think things are getting out of hand.

After the mayor heard that insolent city workers were worsening the already-painful humiliation of getting aid, he rushed down to a Lower East Side relief station to investigate.

Guy Pearce as the idealistic prig, that porcelain face he's got, the vulnerable rimless glasses; Kevin Spacey as the celebrity crime stopper, his level, insolent, flat-eyed stare.

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