HOSTILE in a Sentence
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129 example sentences for HOSTILE, such as:
1. Her speech evoked a hostile response.
2. It depends what you mean by 'hostile'.
3. I have no idea why he is hostile to me.
4. Carr wouldn't meet Feng's stare, which was openly hostile.
5. The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
2. It depends what you mean by 'hostile'.
3. I have no idea why he is hostile to me.
4. Carr wouldn't meet Feng's stare, which was openly hostile.
5. The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
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Meanings and Examples of HOSTILE
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hostile
a. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
n. troops belonging to the enemy's military forces
Classic Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1 She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.
2 And she had only a sick elderly husband and this dirty, piddling, little store between her and a hostile world.
3 Sue had been the cause of her father's death, whether she intended it or not, and she should have the decency to control herself in front of the hostile neighbors.
4 He looked so like a damned soul waiting judgment-- so like a child in a suddenly hostile world.
5 It also seems to me that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large, full-grown bulls of the species.
6 Jurgis would have spoken again, but the policeman had seized him by the collar and was twisting it, and a second policeman was making for him with evidently hostile intentions.
7 A moment later he looked around and saw Jurgis, and their eyes met; it was a hostile glance, the boy evidently thinking that the other had suspicions of the snowball.
8 There was the same cold, hostile stare that he had had from the boss of the fertilizer mill.
9 Then Jurgis slowly and warily approached him; he took out the bill, and fumbled it for a moment, while the man stared at him with hostile eyes across the counter.
10 A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England.
11 Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
12 The flash of rifles was then quick and close between them, but either party was too well skilled to leave even a limb exposed to the hostile aim.
13 As he approached the buildings, his steps become more deliberate, and his vigilant eye suffered no sign, whether friendly or hostile, to escape him.
14 He was, in truth, their ruler; and, so long as he could maintain his popularity, no monarch could be more despotic, especially while the tribe continued in a hostile country.
15 They lifted their eyes every chance to the smoke-wreathed hillock from whence the hostile battery addressed them.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
2 I have no idea why he is hostile to me.
3 Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.
4 It depends what you mean by 'hostile'.
5 If this round of talks fails, the world's trading environment is likely to become increasingly hostile.
6 The experience has made him generally hostile towards women.
7 As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism.
8 The President had a hostile reception in Ohio this morning.
9 The leadership voted to purge the party of "hostile and anti-party elements".
10 It reflects the aberrant personality of some American politicians hostile to China's development and becoming powerful.
11 Her speech evoked a hostile response.
12 Carr wouldn't meet Feng's stare, which was openly hostile.
13 The authorities say negative reports on Zimbabwe are a false creation by what they term a hostile Western media.
14 They separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war-whoops, and killed each other by thousands.
15 They assembled in camp toward supper-time, hungry and happy; but now a difficulty arose -- hostile Indians could not break the bread of hospitality together without first making peace, and this was a simple impossibility without smoking a pipe of peace.