belligerent

Example Sentences

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A long, belligerent occupation of Iraq looked like a morass and they had no UN authorisation to topple the regime.

From BBC

And when she was 19, she encountered a belligerent Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival.

From Los Angeles Times

And that sneering-smiling face looking at me from that small black-and-white TV screen seemed completely recognizable — like the face of every belligerent 1950s dad I then knew.

From Salon

The Moon government’s largely muted response to North Korea’s short-range missile tests and belligerent behavior since 2019 damaged Seoul’s leverage with Pyongyang by eliminating a sense of reciprocity, Park said.

From Seattle Times

The White House is reportedly mulling a renewed version of the nuclear deal that former President Barack Obama negotiated with the belligerent middle eastern power in 2015.

From Washington Times