bellicose

How To Use bellicose In A Sentence

• Heritage-rich nations and tribal groups alike sound bellicose in defence of heritage whose attrition they are impotent to prevent.
• He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.
• Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. White House forcefully responds to Cheney
• And many of the farmers, who should have been his warmest friends and best customers, were now so attached to their king and country, by bellicose warmth and army contracts, that instead of a guinea for a four-gallon anker, they would offer three crowns, or the exciseman. Mary Anerley
• The Presidents's language has certainly reflected this - as the days have gone by, his speeches have become more and more bellicose.
• It is on the underside of this plate that the bellicose termite constructs its most spectacular architectural invention.
• In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions.
• Underlying the bellicose rhetoric is clear frustration. Times, Sunday Times
• He was a self-opinionated man with a bellicose personality.
• The dog was angry and bellicosely bristled up.