Example sentences for: hostile

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

  • What makes some takeovers hostile?

  • The WP sees the possibility here of "a 1980s-style hostile takeover battle."

  • He is a self-described "Neo-Wilsonian" who is skeptical of liberalism, hostile to the United Nations, and suspicious of empire.

  • Groups normally hostile to Tutsis, including Bantu student protesters in Kinshasa, have turned against Mobutu.

  • Sul­­tan Abdül Hamid II (1876–1909) tried to apply absolute rule to an empire staggering under a crushing foreign debt, with a fragmented population of hostile people, and succeeded only in creating ill will and dissatisfaction amongst the younger generation of educated Turks.


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