Sentence examples for testy mood from inspiring English sources

More often than not, according to a crowd in a testy mood, nobody playing or officiating soccer knew what they were doing.

Mike Piazza dropped the testy mood that had accompanied his comments earlier this week regarding Roger Clemens, his least favorite subject.

The No. 7 horse skittered around the starting gate in a disoriented and testy mood before he was finally shoved in.

Hezbollah, in any case, appears to be in a testy mood that might make it resistant to any appeal from Syria.

The testy mood of the meeting was evident even before it started, when the two chief delegates did what diplomats do before they get down to business, engaged in chitchat.

With the testy mood of the N.C.A.A. enforcement staff, its narrow interpretations of arcane regulations and mounting tension involving coaches, school administrators and players, the less said, the better.

The hearings are likely to be testy, given the foul mood of the U.S. Congress after having had to swallow a $700 billion bailout package to keep Wall Street from bringing the entire nation's economy to it knees due to a stifling credit crunch.

After that reminiscence, his mood turned testier when he was asked about a recent article in The Daily News that reported that Robert K. Steel, the deputy mayor for economic development, was at his house in Greenwich, Conn., on a recent Sunday.

A testy Testud was not in the mood for it.

The mood became a little testy in the 4-2 game when partisans in the crowd decided to get into the line-calling business and Stepanek's forehand started looking a little tight.

"Very good!" The Cyclones continued to score--they eventually won, 6-1--and toward the end of the game the mood on the ice grew testy, with more pushing and shoving than normal.