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
• None of this is news to nervous fans whose calls for a trade grow more belligerent by the day.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
• In the film, Michelle Rodriguez plays a belligerent 18-year-old who fights...
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2018
• The talk from the powers that be is much more belligerent and hostile.
  — Obed Manuel, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2019
• At full throat, the new RS5 sounds pissed off, with fat blats on upshifts and a belligerent growl not far off the old V-8’s.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 12 Sep. 2017
• At full throat, the new RS5 sounds pissed off, with fat blats on upshifts and a belligerent growl not far off the old V-8’s.
  — Erik Johnson, Car and Driver, 28 June 2017
• He's been both friend and foe of the belligerent president.
  — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
• Gone are the belligerent threats and photos with huge missiles of 2017.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• Trump did fine with a base that loves a belligerent approach.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 22 Oct. 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
• By refusing to do so, Trump has made the United States a co-belligerent in the Yemen war.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• 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
• So this worry, this belligerent kind of love, knows its way around.
  — Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Plus, if that’s not enough to deter you, the FAA has in the past levied six-figure fines against belligerent passengers.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2023
• One of the men got upset and became belligerent, screaming at the bouncer.
  — Julie A. Short, cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
• There should be no Marshall Plan for Iran as long as the present regime continues on its belligerent track.
  — A. J. Caschetta, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• Those remarks stood in contrast to many of his tweets, which were more belligerent in nature.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 June 2020
• Police have even been called to help deal with belligerent customers.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
• The body of a belligerent woman is found among the Halloween decorations on the front yard of Miriam’s Coral Shores home.
  — Sun Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2022
• She was warned several times about it and became belligerent when asked to leave.
  — cleveland, 6 May 2021
• Mars picks up the belligerent energy and attacks poor little Chiron.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
• That’s why Baker lingers thoughtfully on the women who arrive at the house every morning to clean up Ivan’s messes—and on the belligerent tow-truck driver who turns up to obstruct the plot but emerges, within seconds, as a harried kindred spirit.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024