Example sentences for: bellicose

How can you use “bellicose” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the 1956 presidential race, Democrats seized on what columnist Max Lerner called "The Triple Issue": President Eisenhower's frail physical health (he'd had a heart attack in September 1955), nukes (the Soviet Union built a hydrogen bomb in November 1955), and, in Lerner's phrase, "the character of Richard Nixon" (liberals viewed Nixon, then vice president, as bellicose and ruthless).

  • Be that as it may, bellicose language and self-inflicted wounds are not exclusive to those parts of the industry where Microsoft is involved--you find them everywhere.

  • The Russian daily Kommersant said that the air raids show that "Russia will no longer capitulate to Chechnya but will only speak in the language of force" and concluded the raids have rendered the Chechen leadership "less bellicose."

  • But on a more sinister note, rough new bellicose words have flooded into Serbian slang.

  • Oleander and jacaranda soften its bellicose nature, and there are fine views over the tiled roofs of the town and surrounding countryside.


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