AGGRESSOR in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for AGGRESSOR, such as:

1. Nanjing city was sacked by Japanese aggressors.
2. A succession of military defeats weakened the aggressor.
3. The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.
4. The mischiefs done were always so nicely timed, also, as further to shelter the aggressor.
5. Of course the ultimate responsibility for the present conflict without doubt lies with the aggressor.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGGRESSOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aggressor
 n.  one that engages in aggression; person who first attacks
Classic Sentence:
1  Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gallantly defended her from every other aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
2  It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly-wrung replies.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  The mischiefs done were always so nicely timed, also, as further to shelter the aggressor.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  kill him if I can; for to that hazard does he justly expose himself, whoever introduces a state of war, and is aggressor in it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The use of force without authority, always puts him that uses it into a state of war, as the aggressor, and renders him liable to be treated accordingly.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  "You are very generous, gentlemen of the Guards," said Athos, full of rancor, for Jussac was one of the aggressors of the preceding day.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
8  Four shots replied to them almost instantaneously, but much better aimed than those of the aggressors; three soldiers fell dead, and one of the pioneers was wounded.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
Example Sentence:
1  Of course the ultimate responsibility for the present conflict without doubt lies with the aggressor.
2  A succession of military defeats weakened the aggressor.
3  The most violent reactions arise when the aggressor is the stepfather of the child, the mother's new boyfriend or her new husband.
4  There are some undisputed facts. Japan was the aggressor, occupying Manchuria in northern China in 1931.
5  The town had been besieged for two months but still resisted the aggressors.
6  Nanjing city was sacked by Japanese aggressors.