Example sentences for: hostile

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

  • 9 billion hostile bid for Warner-Lambert.

  • He was being baited on television by a hostile commentator, who began: "Professor Brzezinski, you are a Kremlinologist."

  • As the art historian Robert Herbert has pointed out, Renoir's famously feathery brushwork (which, according to one hostile critic, left light "like grease spots on the clothing of his figures") was meant to show the mark of the hand rather than the mechanical "finish" of academic and salon art.

  • Though both diGenova and Toensing are Republicans who are hostile to Clinton and supportive of Kenneth Starr, they usually argue against the independent-counsel law in general.

  • Why is it an inherent property of intercivilizational relations that they be "usually cool" and "often hostile"?


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