Example sentences for: hostilities

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

  • "I need the gentleman from Utah to explain to me how a generation unborn in circumstances unforeseen will deal with renewed military hostilities, a deep recession, or the problem of declining economic competitiveness."

  • Even there, for all the hostilities, there’s an undeniable cultural affinity with India — feuding brothers rather than unrelated strangers.

  • U.S. officials insist that at most these troops might be dispatched to "escort" Kosovars back to their villages once "hostilities" have ended.

  • After years of opposition on social matters, Berliners solidly supported what proved to be the Hohenzollerns’ last military gasp — World War I. At the start of the hostilities in August 1914, people gathered in thousands to cheer the Kaiser at the royal palace.

  • The bill for Home Rule finally became law just as World War I broke out, but with the proviso that it was not to be enacted until hostilities ended.


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