Example sentences for: confrontational

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

  • But beneath the welter of details about Cyprus and Angola, Kissinger makes a surprising claim, arguing that his tough-but-accommodating policy toward the Soviets in the mid-'70s led directly to the confrontational Reagan tactics that won the Cold War in the '80s.

  • He seemed not only at ease in the confrontational setting but to be enjoying himself--savoring the pleasure of being shot at and missed.

  • But the Post goes a bit overboard with 120-plus words on an alleged conversation between Lewis and Lewinsky's former White House supervisor that reveal nothing about the conversation except that it lasted less than five minutes and was not confrontational.

  • But more likely the message was intended for a Yeltsin appointee turned rival, Yevgeny Primakov, the confrontational, pro-Serbian prime minister who hopes to capitalize on the Kosovo crisis.

  • Predicting that he would "get a lot of heat" for treating the minister with respect, Novak said that Farrakhan was "more measured and a lot less confrontational and provocative than a lot of the politicians we talk to regularly on this program."


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