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

Adult brown widows were less belligerent, the researchers found, and significantly less likely to successfully kill a black widow hiding in an established web.

From New York Times

South Korea’s wariness stems in part from its reluctance to openly antagonize Moscow, from which it hopes for cooperation in imposing new sanctions against an increasingly belligerent North Korea.

From New York Times

It’s likely that North Korea will respond to the upcoming South Korean-U.S. exercises with provocative missile tests and belligerent rhetoric because it views them as an invasion rehearsal.

From Seattle Times

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

From Los Angeles Times