How to Use bellicose in a Sentence

bellicose

adjective

• Never in peacetime, perhaps, have the statements of our government officials been more relentlessly bellicose. Yet their actions have been comparatively cautious.
  — New Yorker, 24 June 1985
• Edelstein is taking his cues from the text, though his cast sometimes struggles when the bellicose mood switches abruptly into high pathos.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• Kholodov is a bear of a man, both friendly and bellicose.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• His address was bellicose enough to draw a rebuke from the White House and renew fears of a Cold War-style arms race.
  — latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• In the weeks since the deadly Parkland shooting, the NRA has doubled down on its bellicose rhetoric.
  — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2018
• The termination of the Cold War did not erase the imprint of a more bellicose Buddhism.
  — Amar Diwakar, The New Republic, 23 Mar. 2018
• His bellicose statements were designed to get the world to see North Korea as a world power.
  — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018
• That had been a far cry from his bellicose rhetoric, issued both on Twitter and from the rostrum of the United Nations last fall.
  — Catherine Lucey and Zeke Miller, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2018
• Female leaders appear to be just as bellicose as male ones, if not more so.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 29 June 2022
• The best baseball team in history is about to embark on a season that would turn even the most blustery and bellicose of Dodgers hoarse.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• Kenny, the Store’s burly, famously bellicose chef, still mans the kitchen with his son Zack.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 20 July 2017
• The tone struck me as less than bellicose, as if the Kremlin might be looking to lower the temperature.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2022
• The United States and Iran have teetered on the brink of armed conflict in recent weeks, with both sides issuing bellicose warnings.
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
• China may therefore be less bellicose for the time being.
  — Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2024
• Tucked around behind the wall are two side-by-side video projections, one showing the football game and the other a frenzied, bellicose crowd.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• While bold, brazen and boisterous at best, the outer bounds on the right can be bellicose, bitter and biting at worst — bashing buddies to boot.
  — Eli Joseph, Fortune Europe, 5 June 2024
• In the House, Ms. Cheney’s policies are as bellicose as her messaging.
  — New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Kanye West, who took to the rugged plains of Wyoming to produce and later premiere his latest album, Ye, ends his predictably bellicose new record with a woman’s voice.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 1 June 2018
• Apart from the potential for further incidents (and, no doubt, endless bellicose rhetoric) in the Middle East, there’s the simple fact that demand should peak for the year then.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• The most bellicose rhetoric from Kim’s government, which Trump matched in kind, has indeed subsided.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2019
• The hermit nation made the bellicose statement Thursday, which corresponds with the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 25 June 2020
• The bellicose Mr Trump, however, would be unlikely to mind.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• Because actual power does undergird Trump’s bellicose rhetoric, the rest of the world must contend with that question, in many cases for the first time.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 11 June 2018
• Nerves were also calmed by the toning-down of the bellicose threats with which America’s government at first responded to the attacks.
  — The Economist, 20 Sep. 2019
• The small gesture spoke to a big opening, a signal that Kim may be willing to break with the bellicose records of his father and grandfather and the first several years of his own time in power.
  — Brian Bennett / Singapore, Time, 12 June 2018
• As well as his bellicose views, Mr Bolton was also criticised for his overbearing style.
  — The Economist, 10 Sep. 2019
• Allies, meanwhile, will be looking to see how bellicose Trump is toward toward Kim.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
• By lowering the temperature to around 64 degrees, the baby crocs become drowsy and less bellicose over a journey lasting up to a week.
  — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• And although the economic disparity hasn’t changed much, the North’s weaponry has, its war plan has, and its dictator’s bellicose rhetoric has.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2017
• The loudest, most provocative, most bellicose voices echo loudest on most social media platforms.
  — Axios, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024