bellicose

How To Use bellicose In A Sentence

• Yet it is also a fact that the Administration has quietly backed down from a number of its most bellicose threats.
• When reason is abdicated and replaced by the bellicose creeds of opposing religions, peace is impossible.
• The dog was angry and bellicosely bristled up.
• But other less bellicose, parallel approaches should still be considered.
• He shuns personal publicity yet is clearly bellicose. Times, Sunday Times
• We won't know until the inspectors get there what his frame of mind is, but it's pretty bellicose in the meantime.
• At the time, the government was very bellicose about a military campaign.
• We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports (cricket, sumo), both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners.
• The previous Government did not match its often bellicose rhetoric with the requisite funding. Times, Sunday Times
• The Presidents's bellicose posture arose from weakness, not strength.