How to Use hostility in a Sentence

hostility

noun

• Both sides are calling for a cessation of hostilities.
• They were both glad to have gotten through the divorce proceedings without any visible signs of hostility.
• The townspeople showed open hostility to outsiders.
• Peace talks were stalled after recent hostilities.
• The hostilities halted in 1953 with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
• But on talk shows and in chat rooms the grievances and hostilities that have led the nation to this point were not quieted.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
• Still, many experts assume that at some point at least some form of pause in hostilities will come.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
• Her dogma is: The bigger your fabulous gets, the less room there is for hate and hostility.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Obviously, as time has gone on, the hostilities have opened up to more places.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Ryan and Eric feel no hostility at Progressive Field when the Twins come to town.
  — cleveland, 22 Jan. 2023
• There's more hostility since the Dobbs decision, in her view.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• This is not the first time that Britain’s clubby media world has shown hostility to outsiders.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The United States has presented a cease-fire plan that would have Hamas release the hostages in Gaza in exchange for a pause in hostilities.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
• But more than anything else, growing hostilities with the United States have set the region on edge.
  — Damien Cave Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• The plan to end hostilities hinges on Hezbollah moving its fighters from the border.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• In the past, Helton said, attempts at change have led to hostility and division.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2023
• But over the last five months, this long-standing hostility has been upended.
  — Jamsheed K. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 20 July 2023
• These myths help feed a broader hostility toward drug users, a tactic that has been very helpful to promote the war on drugs.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 7 Oct. 2022
• The escalation of hostilities between the U.S. and the Houthis could upset those efforts.
  — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• During the six-week cease-fire, the two sides would then work out plans for a second phase, which would involve another 42-day halt to hostilities and the release of more hostages.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• But Hamas has held out for a total cessation of hostilities that would leave it in charge of Gaza, a red line for the Israeli government.
  — Adam Sella, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• The two decide to partner up, set their hostility aside and work together.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, Meg still has to deal with hostility from the controlling Ellen, who thinks a convert just isn’t good enough and isn’t shy about letting Meg know.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 18 June 2024
• The 27-year-old said the fire, regardless of the motive behind it, dredged up the hostility to the community that’s been documented in the news.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Prices climbed on Tuesday over worries that exports through the region would be constrained by the hostilities.
  — WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
• He is still shaken because of the hostility with which he was targeted.
  — Parth M.n., WIRED, 17 July 2023
• Any cash crunch, even if two years down the road, wasn’t addressed in Friday’s statement, nor was the hostility that followed a strike by teachers in March 2022 that shut down schools for eight days.
  — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2024
• Constant criticisms and hostility are not the way to make that happen.
  — Jane Carr, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• People like that fill me with violent hostility and even hatred.
  — Yukio Mishima, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
• All the while, the Jensens (young Julia included) treat her with a shifting mix of condescending paternalism and low-grade hostility.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024