How to Use testy in a Sentence

testy

adjective
  • Despite the win, Self was in a testy mood after the game.
    David Smale, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Hontzas, who is known to get testy with customers who try to save seats or leave the front door propped open, had to laugh.
    Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al, 26 May 2022
  • Seinfeld gets testy when a server tries to push the toast on him.
    Madison Roberts, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2022
  • From there his chip ran long and left, leaving a testy nine-footer to save par that didn’t drop.
    USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Here's what to expect at a hearing that's likely to get testy.
    Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Naz Reid added 14 points off the bench for Minnesota in a matchup that turned testy early.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2022
  • And Soffer took a pistol out of his pocket once and held it to his side when things got testy.
    Byron Tate, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2020
  • As with the novels, the often testy Leaphorn/Chee relationship is the heart and soul of the series.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
  • In their era, relationships among the hosts were testy.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Sometimes, Lowry even gets testy with his teammates or coach.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Things got a little testy in the bottom of the inning when Alcantara plunked Acuña on the hip with a fastball.
    Kristie Rieken, Houston Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Trump over-enunciates, fluffs the line, snarls ultra-whitely, tries again, fluffs it again, swats the lectern with a testy hand.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
  • Patrick Daley Thompson worked to make changes to the law and texted Lightfoot about it, leading to a testy exchange.
    Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Things got a bit testy at the end of the first half, after Frogs forward Chuck O’Bannon was ejected because of a flagrant foul.
    Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But that changed in the stretch of roughly one hour when there were four testy episodes involving players from both teams.
    Bill Pennington, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Near the end of the match, there was a testy exchange following a hard foul by Fragapane on the Timbers’ Diego Chara.
    oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Sure Dark Hallway, the Observer’s testy body man, has always been a gruff, but his beard shows not an ounce of gray.
    al, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The back-and-forth has turned testy at times, and illustrates how heated the race has grown with just days to go before the Sept. 6 primary.
    Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Three Democrats, including Trustee Mike Keys, called for the special meeting, which was testy at times.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Talks have been publicly testy, with lots of rhetoric and messaging that the union is prepared to strike if key demands aren’t met.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In a testy exchange, Guthrie peppered Trump with questions about white supremacy and QAnon.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The race to succeed Boris Johnson in Britain is becoming crowded and testy.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Novak Djokovic challenges a heckler in a testy 2nd-round win at Australian Open.
    Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In a testy match, Reyna scored the first U.S. goal and had been subbed off when appeared to be hit on the face by an object thrown from the stands following Pulisic’s goal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2021
  • As the night wore on, the debate became testy, even as people acknowledged that each side was entrenched in its views.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The emails revealed testy exchanges over delays in payments between Rio and the younger Diack.
    New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Yet when Rutgers’ Aron Cruickshank popped with a late hit on the Buckeyes’ sideline, a testy set of dominos began to fall.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • While this was not the first testy meeting between the Chinese and the Americans, the balance of power between the two countries has changed.
    New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The interview ended with testy remarks from Musk over Lemon's questioning of X's free speech policies and the loss of big advertisers.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • That will complicate his next four years in office, which will also likely involve a testy relationship with China.
    Chien-Hua Wan and Debby Wu / Bloomberg, TIME, 21 May 2024

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