Sample sentences for BELLIGERENT

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Definition

hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight); or one already engaged in a fight or war

belligerent = hostile or combative

She likes to make people lose their cool by starting belligerent political arguments.

belligerent = hostile or combative

Belligerent as a bull terrier, she marched up to him.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart

belligerent = hostile (with the attitude of one eager to fight)

He strutted around with a belligerent and tough attitude.
Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows

belligerent = hostile (as though eager to fight)

He maintained a belligerent attitude toward all well-dressed men.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

belligerent = hostile (eager to fight)

the Indians were not belligerent and it was apparent that Gus had merely struck the wrong bunch at the wrong time, in the wrong manner.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove

belligerent = hostile (eager to fight)

"That's right," said Mitchell Layton belligerently, as if he expected everyone to disagree and was insulting them in advance.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

belligerently = with an attitude of one eager to fight

the man turned a hard, belligerent face to him.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

belligerent = hostile (showing the attitude of one eager to fight)

The white brothers looked uncomfortable and some of the Harlem brothers belligerent.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

belligerent = hostile (eager to fight)

I tilted my head back and glared at him, embarrassment making me lash out, belligerent.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

belligerent = hostile (with the attitude of one eager to fight)

The rogue commander was getting more and more belligerent, the United States more and more concerned.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

belligerent = hostile (with of the attitude of one eager to fight)

Now the woman is turning intellectual, and will insist on a belligerent discussion of politics, and will doubtless order him to abolish slavery in the South at once.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

belligerent = with the attitude of one eager to fight

Do you enjoy being the most belligerent, uncooperative child in school?
Madeleine L'Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

belligerent = hostile (the attitude of one eager to fight)

Someone needs to be able to shoot potential belligerents,
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

belligerents = people engaged in a fight or war

Now Lennie retorted belligerently, "He ain't neither. George won't do nothing like that. ... He's nice to me."
John Steinbeck -- Of Mice and Men

belligerently = in a hostile manner

The Inspector's tone was belligerent.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

belligerent = hostile (with the attitude of one eager to fight)

"So you say," challenged Orik, ever more belligerent.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

belligerent = hostile (with the attitude of one eager to fight)

belligerent = hostile (showing the attitude of one eager to fight)

"A fella got to eat," he began; and then, belligerently, "A fella got a right to eat."
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

belligerently = as though ready for a fight

"What're you trying to do," the white man asked belligerently, "kill this man's sale?"
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

belligerently = with an attitude of one eager to fight

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