Example sentences for: belligerence

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

  • She conflates belligerence, divisiveness, polarization, titillation, jealousy, incivility, aloofness, ruthlessness, cruelty, savagery, contempt, glibness, cynicism, anomie, partisanship, obstructionism, and gridlock.

  • Writing on the LAT opinion page, contributing editor Robert Scheer makes the provocative argument that the quickest way to halt China's belligerence is to simply hand over all our nuclear warhead and ballistics secrets.

  • While some conservatives allege that Clinton's unnecessary belligerence provoked the Serbs to ethnic cleansing, others say his timidity about using ground troops "emboldened" the Serbs to the same effect.

  • Sinologists debated whether the Chinese regime is sincerely paranoid or is feigning belligerence to appease the Chinese public's paranoia.

  • Among her illustrations of belligerence are William Safire's "kick 'em when they're up" philosophy of journalism and the media's use of war metaphors to describe Alan Greenspan's policies against inflation.


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