Sample Sentences forbellicose (editor-reviewed)
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She demonstrated a steady hand while negotiating with a typically bellicose North Korea.bellicose = having a tendency to fight
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My explanation made no sense, and naturally it did not satisfy the bellicose woman. (source)bellicose = eager to fight
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They were not very bellicose-looking; their columns were straggling, their suntan uniforms had gotten rumpled in the train, and they were singing Roll Out the Barrel. (source)bellicose = like people who are inclined to fight
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He abstained from thoughts of home, from thoughts of his two bellicose sons and the wife he had nicknamed Melao. (source)bellicose = inclined to fight
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Despite this possibility, the Soviet leader becomes less bellicose.† (source)
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For a plebe, his stare was too intense and bellicose.† (source)
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The chaplain was shocked by his bellicose words and tone and, to his own amazement and mystification, deeply chagrined that they were turning him loose.† (source)
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It was very different from the flag-waving, shouting bellicosity of his younger days.† (source)
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They proved that a seal pup could swim or not swim at birth by stating the proposition very bellicosely and then following it up with an attack on the opposing man's judgment, common sense, nationality, or past history.† (source)
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The thirst for individual freedom had brought forth the bellicose cult of nationalism, which humanitarian liberalism called sinister, although it, too, taught the doctrine of individualism, but from a slightly different angle.† (source)
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We had seen stories about this in the newspapers, and some of the men even joked with me about Winnie's bellicosity.† (source)
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It sounded bellicose, and all the while Martin was blissful with the certainty that he had come home.† (source)
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Should that fail, they were not shy about bursting into fits of bellicosity: cursing or even openly bullying customers.† (source)
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Servile and fawning as he had been before, he was now as domineering and bellicose.† (source)
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The letter was written in a fit of Conroy passion, the tiny bellicose Irishman residing in my genes and collective unconscious urging me on and whispering to me that a great injustice was being perpetrated and that it was up to me to expose this condition to the person with the ability and training to do something about it.† (source)
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The rest of the meeting they gave to a bellicose investigation of the fact that there was seventeen cents less than there should be in the Fund.† (source)
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