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
• So far, Donald Trump has proven less warlike than any of them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 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
• The coronovirus crisis shoved the state into a near-warlike footing.
  — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• The warlike rhetoric has yet to provoke India even as China rushes more troops to the region.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2017
• Apparently when the Vulcans first met the Klingons, the warlike species fired on them.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• At the event, Parnell, 39, cast the opposition against President Joe Biden in warlike terms.
  — Marc Levy, Star Tribune, 11 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• Throbbing veins on a raging steed are warlike, but the rider’s exposed knee, framed by the frayed denim threads of his pant leg, seems vulnerable, even in bronze.
  — Kriston Capps, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2019
• Daniel Defense — like many firearms companies — has leaned into warlike imagery to sell its guns.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
• Moreover, the Greeks described the warlike Amazons nourishing their babies with mares’ milk.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2020
• This warlike mentality is shared by Groundswell, the political group that Thomas has chaired.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
• That has been accompanied by a barrage of warlike rhetoric on Russian state media.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2021
• The heavy rotation of videos extolling the virtues of life inside the caliphate in 2015 have moved to more warlike missives focused on terrorist attacks against the West, analysts say.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Kim and Trump traded crude personal insults and warlike threats to attack one another.
  — Fox News, 11 June 2018
• Despite the grand efforts of Swedes, French, and Germans, the expanses were always too wide, the barriers too numerous, the window of good weather too brief — and the Russians were too many and too warlike on their own soil.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
• This anti-immigration sentiment and warlike imagery were also found in the Trump White House.
  — Sara Kamali, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• The three judges deciding the appeal didn’t give clear indications of their thinking, though one questioned how Merck could be the victim of a warlike attack if almost all the damage occurred in the U.S.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2023
• In Collins’ proposal, the talons were extended toward the surface, an image Gilruth considered too warlike.
  — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
• The Enterprise crew finds Kevin living with a facsimile of his wife in the ruins of a Federation colony devastated by the Husnock, a warlike alien race.
  — 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
• 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

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024