Example sentences for: bellicose

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

  • Drawing on the traditions of the Scots-Irish settlers of Appalachia and the Ozarks, Highland Southern populism encourages a tribal approach to politics and rewards leaders who are flamboyant and bellicose.

  • But the Russian verb he used in a sentence that was more a bellicose boast than a threat was pokhoronit', which means `bury,' all right, but in the sense of the verb in “we burried Grandma last week.”

  • 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.

  • Steven Kull, director of the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes, points to his own studies and a recent RAND study showing that from World War II through Bosnia, public support for bellicose action often surges in the face of U.S. casualties.

  • 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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