How to Use belligerent in a Sentence

belligerent

adjective

• 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
• The talk from the powers that be is much more belligerent and hostile.
  — Obed Manuel, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2019
• Trump did fine with a base that loves a belligerent approach.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• He's been both friend and foe of the belligerent president.
  — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• One of the men got upset and became belligerent, screaming at the bouncer.
  — Julie A. Short, cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
• Police have even been called to help deal with belligerent customers.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
• The president was belligerent to the point of nuttiness.
  — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020
• She was warned several times about it and became belligerent when asked to leave.
  — cleveland, 6 May 2021
• The chapter has grabbed headlines for belligerent protests at school board meetings.
  — Evan McMorris-Santoro and Meridith Edwards, CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
• Those remarks stood in contrast to many of his tweets, which were more belligerent in nature.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 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
• 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
• As is often the case with historical events, neither belligerent had much claim to the moral high ground.
  — Max Hastings, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• 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 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
• Rude, offensive and belligerent customers are the bane of any front-line team member.
  — Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022
• She was arrested and was belligerent during the booking process.
  — cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• There’s a kind of belligerent independence that’s sort of rattling around in there.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Would Dad show up wracked with confusion and a belligerent demeanor?
  — Scott Bengston, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• Speaking to customers inside the bar, police learned that the two suspects were belligerent and would not leave people alone.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
• Many of the military leaders on trial were belligerent.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• So can a raid led by chimpanzees, which will form belligerent coalitions to usurp the territories of other groups.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
• If a recruit is belligerent or unmotivated, there are by-the-book ways to get him out.
  — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 2 May 2024