Example sentences for: warlike

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

  • In Mexico it became a warlike spectacle, involving many soldiers riding the best horses and wearing extravagant clothing.

  • At the same time, failure to strike Iraq after weeks of warlike rhetoric could have cost the United States its credibility, Le Figaro said, adding that "by saving himself, Saddam Hussein has also saved Bill Clinton."

  • That is because long before it became a popular name for a resident of Boston, warlike tribes had used Beaneaters as a derisive epithet for peace-loving agrarian Indians.

  • If the alternative is to lose our freedom, then we must be warlike to preserve it.

  • Could it even be that under certain circumstances, democracies might be more warlike than other states?


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