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.
• Yet even in the face of hostility, hundreds of us stayed.
  — Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
• There’s no hostility, that’s just the fact.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
• That fire stopped for a time, then hostilities appeared to restart.
  — Bassem Mroue, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
• Here’s a look at the terms of the cease-fire and its prospects for ending hostilities over the long term.
  — Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
• If and when that happens, present hostilities can end.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
• Trump will use the lull in hostilities to build a secure rare earths supply chain.
  — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• The biggest threat to the hostility in the world is a nuke-armed Iran.
  — NBC news, 17 May 2026
• An end to hostilities is far from assured.
  — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 6 May 2026
• Adams dismissed this notion out of hand, with no small amount of hostility.
  — New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
• 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
• The four-day war was brief but fierce, with hostilities waged across vast geographies.
  — Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026
• The ceasefire has failed to stop all hostilities in the region.
  — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 11 May 2026
• So, Joe comes in with a lot of hostility, a lot of anger, a lot of rage for what happened.
  — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
• So there was a little hostility there.
  — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 22 Feb. 2026
• There are always one or two nice colleagues, but there is also a mass vibe of hostility.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
• This appears to the eyes of some as a trend line of hostility to Christians.
  — CBS News, 10 May 2026
• The working dogs must be able to detect signs of hostility and remain alert at all times.
  — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 18 June 2026
• Oil prices have risen more than 4% this week in response to the latest hostilities.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 10 July 2026
• The message refers to the conflict in Gaza and calls for an end to hostilities.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
• Not that all of them would be [successful] in it, but at least the type of hostility we were met by was not their fate.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
• Obviously, as time has gone on, the hostilities have opened up to more places.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Like many in Lebanon, her plans and ambitions had been put on hold by the hostilities.
  — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
• Instead, the outcome might end up along the lines of a no lose/no lose, winding down of hostilities.
  — Daniel Kurtzer, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
• The two sides had agreed last month to a ceasefire, but hostilities had continued.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 4 June 2026
• But over the last five months, this long-standing hostility has been upended.
  — Jamsheed K. Choksy, Foreign Affairs, 20 July 2023
• And new attacks call into question whether the hostilities will soon end.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2026