Example sentences for: belligerent

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

  • He's also large, powerful, and notoriously belligerent.

  • (Yes, there will be a party; yes, gifts are appropriate; and yes, my clothing sizes and preferences in porcelain figurines [drunken belligerent clowns] will be posted as soon as those lovable bumblers at Shining Path get the site up and working.)

  • or “Though the Enemy Be Tens of Thousands Strong” seems excessively belligerent today, we should not forget jingoistic attitudes in Europe and America at the time.

  • The Daily Telegraph , however, called it a "strangely nerve-wracked speech, at once belligerent and insecure, that seemed to reveal an inner uncertainty about what his Government is trying to achieve, and why."

  • In the New York Times last week, columnist Thomas Friedman whacked the China bashers for their belligerent carping over the Cox report: "Where exactly do you guys think you are going with this?


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