How to Use belligerent in a Sentence

belligerent

adjective
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  • He was drunk and belligerent.
  • The belligerent passenger was not the first to be taped to his seat.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The women are just as blotto and belligerent as the men.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
  • All due to a belligerent tug of war over a car valued at less than a grand.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 17 Oct. 2018
  • In the film, Michelle Rodriguez plays a belligerent 18-year-old who fights...
    — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2018
  • The talk from the powers that be is much more belligerent and hostile.
    — Obed Manuel, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2019
  • He's been both friend and foe of the belligerent president.
    — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Gone are the belligerent threats and photos with huge missiles of 2017.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Trump did fine with a base that loves a belligerent approach.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • But on the way there, the captain said, Bryan became belligerent and demanded to be let out of the car.
    — Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 13 June 2018
  • The customer became belligerent and was asked by staff to leave.
    — Brian L. Cox, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The officer noticed that the man was drunk and belligerent.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 3 July 2019
  • And then Brad gets shocked and belligerent because Tai got swayed by somebody else and let him down?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2017
  • The terrible bind that the belligerent and paranoid leaders of the past have placed us in is striking.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The North claims these drills are an invasion rehearsal and has linked them to its own weapons tests and drills and an uptick in belligerent rhetoric.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
  • And at times of war, Turkey can bar the passage of the warships of belligerent parties from crossing.
    — Isil Sariyuce and Arwa Damon, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Plus, if that’s not enough to deter you, the FAA has in the past levied six-figure fines against belligerent passengers.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2023
  • One of the men got upset and became belligerent, screaming at the bouncer.
    — Julie A. Short, cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
  • There should be no Marshall Plan for Iran as long as the present regime continues on its belligerent track.
    — A. J. Caschetta, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Those remarks stood in contrast to many of his tweets, which were more belligerent in nature.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2020
  • Police have even been called to help deal with belligerent customers.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • The body of a belligerent woman is found among the Halloween decorations on the front yard of Miriam’s Coral Shores home.
    — Sun Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
  • She was warned several times about it and became belligerent when asked to leave.
    — cleveland, 6 May 2021
  • And the publics of each belligerent nation must be sustained in their hopes of winning, and such persuasion can come at great cost.
    — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
  • The president was belligerent to the point of nuttiness.
    — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The chapter has grabbed headlines for belligerent protests at school board meetings.
    — Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Rude, offensive and belligerent customers are the bane of any front-line team member.
    — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022
  • As is often the case with historical events, neither belligerent had much claim to the moral high ground.
    — Max Hastings, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • There’s a kind of belligerent independence that’s sort of rattling around in there.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Evan writes one and prints it out in school one day when Connor (Colton Ryan), also a social outcast but in a more belligerent form, grabs it.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021

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