How to Use warlike in a Sentence

warlike

adjective

• The government has been criticized for its warlike attitude.
• Our young black king, the warlike Michael, entered stage left.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
• Meanwhile, a warlike species would probably just wipe us out.
  — Matthew Hutson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
• The coronovirus crisis shoved the state into a near-warlike footing.
  — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• One of the world’s most cooperative mammals is also one of its most warlike.
  — Big Think, 8 May 2026
• Daniel Defense — like many firearms companies — has leaned into warlike imagery to sell its guns.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
• The warlike rhetoric has yet to provoke India even as China rushes more troops to the region.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2017
• That has been accompanied by a barrage of warlike rhetoric on Russian state media.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2021
• Apparently when the Vulcans first met the Klingons, the warlike species fired on them.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
• The bad news is that it’s populated by the warlike, tribal descendants of those left behind after the bombs dropped.
  — Crystal Sparrow, The Verge, 3 May 2018
• The island of Manumotu, where Korero is raised, has a non-warlike approach.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
• Rhaenyra rides the dragon Syrax, a golden female dragon that is nearly as large as Caraxes, though not quite as warlike.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• Both also seem to harbor a suspicion that the world of guns and gun-owners might always have been at least a bit like this, rich with paranoia and warlike thinking.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
• This warlike mentality is shared by Groundswell, the political group that Thomas has chaired.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
• If the ideal is a world in which neither party feels democracy is under siege, these warlike postures represent a grim finding.
  — The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
• After a fiery speech, Mishima—obsessed with physical beauty and warlike vigor—killed himself with a sword.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• Moreover, the Greeks described the warlike Amazons nourishing their babies with mares’ milk.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2020
• North Korea condemns all such drills as a rehearsal for an invasion and has often responded with warlike words, or missile tests.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016
• Neither side is eager for war; but Iran is definitely eager to see sanctions relaxed, and has few ways of achieving that end which do not look warlike.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• The first two episodes focus on the start of a war between the Federation - the good guys - and the chaotic empire of the warlike Klingons.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Chief Harrison said the warlike mentality of some young men only leads to an endless cycle of violence.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• But there remains a sharp divide over whether a mounting series of individual and small-group attacks could add up to a warlike conflict that destabilizes the country.
  — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2022
• But according to myth, Freyr gave up his sword to marry the giantess Gerd — an action the warlike Amleth would view with contempt.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022
• In Collins’ proposal, the talons were extended toward the surface, an image Gilruth considered too warlike.
  — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• That reality is apparent in the standard warlike medical rhetoric, with doctors and patients alike speaking the language of soldiers.
  — Roc Morin, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2017
• That could mean that, despite evidence of early warfare from other sites around the world, early Holocene hunter-gatherers weren’t innately warlike.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2016
• To many Chicagoans, the warlike atmosphere is the result of the increasing aggression of the federal government.
  — Geraldo Cadava, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
• At the event, Parnell, 39, cast the opposition against President Joe Biden in warlike terms.
  — Marc Levy, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• Ludwig’s distant paternal ancestors were in fact German Jewish merchants, not warlike princes.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
• His appearance even played a key role in the resolution of the war between the warlike Klingons and the ostensibly peaceful Federation.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 12 Feb. 2018