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Example sentences for "belligerently"

Lexicographically close words:
bellied; bellies; belligerence; belligerency; belligerent; belligerents; belling; bellman; bellow; bellowed
  1. Casey whirled belligerently upon the man who had walked quietly up behind him.

  2. Entering the dining room Dale's mind was like a country pup walking stiff-legged into a crowd of city dogs, its hair belligerently on end and the tip of its tail wagging a friendly compromise.

  3. Doc shoved the charts aside belligerently to make room for his beefy elbows.

  4. All right," Clocker said belligerently to Oil Pocket.

  5. Finding them still in evidence he shook his fist belligerently at the old bear.

  6. A slight sound caused the fox to turn quickly and the two stood eyeing each other belligerently across the body of the duck.

  7. She kept herself intact in her own mind as a good girl not by belligerently repressing her impulses but by enjoying them secretly outside her mind.

  8. They wandered furtively and observed with uncomfortable precision the bowed head of Henrietta and the spring hat on her head and the heavy-jowled face of her father, belligerently reverent beside her.

  9. At the head of the stairs in the murky hallway Cawsler turned, and without at once recognizing the on-rushing invader wheeled belligerently to face him.

  10. I reckon Newty's got a license ter dwell in this-hyar house," she belligerently asserted.

  11. He would probably explain for himself if only those old stick-plasters would go away and tend to their own affairs," and she glared belligerently at the three unconscious gentlemen and young Monsieur Charloix, the Frenchman.

  12. Jessie, glowering belligerently at the two mischievous faces.

  13. He glared belligerently from one to the other.

  14. The old fellow had squared his jaws belligerently at this statement.

  15. He stared belligerently at the chief of this department.

  16. He glared belligerently at a group of newcomers who stood aloof from his own gathering.

  17. The stalwart young worker had stared belligerently and insolently, he thought.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belligerently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.