Example sentences for: hostile

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

  • We are comfortable with the idea that some national security information--the names of agents in hostile countries is the usual example--should not be published and that such constraints should not have to depend on every journalist in the world acting voluntarily.

  • It’s hard to imagine a faith more hostile to all idolatry, fierce in its uncompromising monotheism, and opposed to the caste system as Islam When sufi mystics or the emperor Akbar tried to create a synthesis between the two faiths, the orthodox on both sides resisted.

  • 9 billion hostile bid for Warner-Lambert.

  • But most of them lack academic credentials and, more important, they are basically hostile to the kind of economics on which such credentials are based.

  • A takeover is deemed hostile when the target company's management objects to the deal.


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