Example sentences for: hackles

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

  • "Too much bombing will raise Arab hackles, but a continuous campaign will achieve what Britain and its allies, including those in the Middle East, crave--the end of Saddam Hussein."

  • This spot is more likely to raise the hackles of the pressure groups than some of the others.

  • In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss.


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