Example sentences for: hostility

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

  • Acting out in stores and "foul behavior" are indicative of emotional problems, deep hostility, and no self-control.

  • PROMO's report claimed that local TV news foments fear and hostility among city residents and suburbanites alike by devoting a disproportionate share of its broadcast time to crime.

  • All told, the obstacles to intergroup harmony posed by human nature are big enough that there is little exaggeration in saying that xenophobia is a part of human nature, at least in this sense: Uncritical hostility toward an identifiable group of people--identifiable by language, dress, color, whatever--is an inherent capacity, activated under certain predictable circumstances.

  • If you choose the first option, Prudie predicts your hostility will build until you wind up choosing the latter.

  • Registration at Radcliffe was usually between September 15th and 20th, but the authors are New Yorkers, and from some deeply suppressed latent hostility, New Yorkers usually manage to get it wrong when they write about Boston or Cambridge.


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