HOSTILITY in a Sentence
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129 example sentences for HOSTILITY, such as:
1. I have no idea why he is hostile to me.
2. They eyed each other with open hostility.
3. There was open hostility between the two schools.
4. Humour was his only weapon against their hostility.
5. The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
2. They eyed each other with open hostility.
3. There was open hostility between the two schools.
4. Humour was his only weapon against their hostility.
5. The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
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Meanings and Examples of HOSTILITY
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hostility
n. unfriendliness; hatred; state of being hostile
Classic Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1 Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
2 Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests.
3 That they laughed at him he was well aware, but he did not expect anything but hostility from them; he was used to that by now.
4 For him she was the one island not only of goodwill to him, but of love in the midst of the sea of hostility and jeering that surrounded him.
5 It was particularly delightful to him to have got rid of the hostility he had been feeling towards Vassenka Veslovsky at home, and to feel instead the most friendly disposition to him.
6 He was glad that all hostility was at an end with Vronsky, and the sense of peace, decorum, and comfort never left him.
7 She ascribed this hostility to the awkward position in which Anna, who had once patronized her, must feel with her now, and she felt sorry for her.
8 A feeling almost of hostility had come over both the young men.
9 The mockery ceased, but the hostility remained, and cold and strained relations became permanent between us.
10 As soon as he noticed a French officer, who thrust his head out of the door, that warlike feeling of hostility which he always experienced at the sight of the enemy suddenly seized him.
11 Of late, since the Emperor's return from the army, there had been some excitement in these conflicting salon circles and some demonstrations of hostility to one another, but each camp retained its own tendency.
12 The officer and soldiers who had arrested Pierre treated him with hostility but yet with respect, in the guardhouse to which he was taken.
13 None of them knew anything, and Petya thought the officers were beginning to look at him and Dolokhov with hostility and suspicion.
14 Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary's pregnancies, and this was such a time.
15 Under ordinary circumstances, there would have been nothing surprising in an invitation from Bertha Dorset; but since the Bellomont episode an unavowed hostility had kept the two women apart.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 Although there is no overt hostility, black and white students do not mix much.
2 What annoys me about these people is their unthinking hostility to anything foreign or unfamiliar.
3 Her attitude towards me oscillated between friendship and hostility.
4 Humour was his only weapon against their hostility.
5 These measures will perpetuate the hostility between the two groups.
6 There was open hostility between the two schools.
7 The last decade has witnessed a serious rise in the levels of racism and hostility to Black and ethnic groups.
8 The prime minister was concerned that such a move would arouse public hostility.
9 There is hostility among traditionalists to this method of teaching history.
10 They eyed each other with open hostility.
11 This opposition may take one of the forms already described, some other forms which have been overlooked, but the root of the hostility is the same in all.
12 There must be, in spite of all indifference and hostility of nature to human interests, some congruity of nature with man or life could not exist.
13 Behind Iran's overtures to Washington lie pent-up pressures for change - from sanctions and internal dissent to regional turmoil - that are shaping a rare chance to end decades of hostility.
14 The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
15 I have no idea why he is hostile to me.