How to Use belligerence in a Sentence

belligerence

noun

• And with each new act of belligerence, experts and the media have scrambled to make sense of what comes next.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
• Turkalo got out and tried to soothe the men, whose belligerence seemed to be fueled by a mix of nerves and alcohol.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
• Rodimer’s belligerence hasn’t been limited to the wrestling ring.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Mar. 2021
• Some would call it belligerence; some would call it strong-minded and sort of inspiring.
  — Vulture, 7 Jan. 2022
• Outraged by the army’s belligerence, a group of Kachin youths held protests in Myitkyina.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• And later, in his drunken belligerence, Alex’s scorned ex-lover challenged Spencer to a duel on the first night of a three-week voyage to London.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2023
• Amid the speculation, the focus of Trump's belligerence, North Korea, remained silent in the hours after the speech.
  — Foster Klug, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
• The Taliban, for its part, seemed to relish the new belligerence the group’s violence has aroused in Washington and Kabul.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
• The belligerence may not only be coming from the American side.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 18 June 2019
• Yet Iran’s belligerence is not the outcome of a book-keeping exercise.
  — The Economist, 12 May 2018
• And that will be part of Biden's mission over the next week -- to unify the region around Taiwan as a deterrent to any Chinese belligerence.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 May 2022
• As the suspense builds, the dead-eyed little monsters pick off the adults one-by-one, using their mama-bear instincts and base male belligerence against them.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 28 Nov. 2019
• Jabotinsky argued that Jews must create their state and face the belligerence of Arab leadership head on.
  — Benny Avni, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020
• He has been knocked, including here, for his belligerence.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
• The nation’s nuclear stance is back to belligerence, one more significant turn for the worse in a world suddenly full of turns for the worse.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
• The interns didn’t want to be alone with Les Miles, and Ed Orgeron was walking, breathing belligerence by the end and both of those guys won national titles.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 20 Oct. 2021
• The protesters' focus has turned to the behavior of the police and the belligerence of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2022
• Music that bleeds with the apocalyptic collisions of bounce beat-era go-go and the lyrical belligerence of drill.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• Russian belligerence has reached such a fervor that the chairman of the Duma recently raised the prospect of taking back Alaska.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• The strategic value of the axis to Tehran has grown over the past eight years because of Washington’s increasing belligerence.
  — Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2024
• This newspaper would welcome an end to Iranian belligerence and to the regime itself, but a wish based on a hunch is not a policy.
  — The Economist, 12 May 2018
• Bluster isn’t beating the virus; belligerence isn’t calming a restive nation.
  — Calvin Woodward, The Denver Post, 5 July 2020
• But there are, and should be, limits on the exercise of both compromise, and of principled belligerence.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• For not wanting to be nonbelligerent by naming the terms for belligerence.
  — Solmaz Sharif, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• But one valuable lesson Democrats should learn from Trump here is how much can be accomplished with sheer shameless belligerence.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 19 Nov. 2020
• The former man is calmer and almost hippie-like, while the latter favors confrontation and belligerence.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 11 June 2017
• The desire to punish belligerence—and to subordinate other geopolitical goals to that cause—is once again in the air.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• But for the most part, his belligerence and incoherence was treated as a point of fact, rather than an unprecedented horror show.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
• More hatred never overcomes hatred; more revenge never satisfies the ache of loss; more belligerence never calms belligerence.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• China’s belligerence also resurrects India’s old strategic concern about a potential two-front war with Pakistan acting in tandem with China.
  — Praveen Donthi, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024