Example sentences for: belligerence

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

  • I refer, with my trademark belligerence, to gay-bashing and encouraging the police to gun down the mentally ill; well actually, I suppose Mayor Giuliani is doing one of those."

  • But to debate that question by itself is already a loaded proposition, because it overlooks the corresponding question of whether Milosevic has misjudged NATO's efficacy and resolve--and whether he, accordingly, can be humbled into reconsidering his belligerence before we reconsider ours.

  • Likewise, to win the psychological war, all you have to do is make your enemy second-guess his belligerence more than he thinks you're second-guessing yours.

  • Fort Anne National Historic Site, focus for the belligerence, is now a pleasant park of grassy knolls and ridges, remains of the earthwork defenses.

  • 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.


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