warlike

Example Sentences

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The changes will also lower the threshold for reservists to be recalled so that reservists can be recalled for "warlike preparations".

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

That threshold will be lowered to "warlike preparations", which is already the threshold for reservists who have left active service in the past few years.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

The book’s poetic language offers a stark contrast to the warlike terms climate advocates tend to use to describe carbon.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2025

Knowing all this, I had expected Wallnau in person to have a fiery personality to match his warlike rhetoric.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024

This warlike name was faintly familiar, with its whiff of school and adult certainty, but the twins found their courage in each other.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan