HOSTILITY in a Sentence

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129 example sentences for HOSTILITY, such as:

1. Her speech evoked a hostile response.
2. It depends what you mean by 'hostile'.
3. Carr wouldn't meet Feng's stare, which was openly hostile.
4. The President had a hostile reception in Ohio this morning.
5. The experience has made him generally hostile towards women.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOSTILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
2  Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 24
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.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 13
6  He was glad that all hostility was at an end with Vronsky, and the sense of peace, decorum, and comfort never left him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 8
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.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 28
8  A feeling almost of hostility had come over both the young men.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  The mockery ceased, but the hostility remained, and cold and strained relations became permanent between us.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
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.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
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.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
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.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IX
13  None of them knew anything, and Petya thought the officers were beginning to look at him and Dolokhov with hostility and suspicion.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IX
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.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.
17  It depends what you mean by 'hostile'.
18  If this round of talks fails, the world's trading environment is likely to become increasingly hostile.
19  The experience has made him generally hostile towards women.
20  As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism.
21  The President had a hostile reception in Ohio this morning.
22  The leadership voted to purge the party of "hostile and anti-party elements".
23  It reflects the aberrant personality of some American politicians hostile to China's development and becoming powerful.
24  Her speech evoked a hostile response.
25  Carr wouldn't meet Feng's stare, which was openly hostile.
26  The authorities say negative reports on Zimbabwe are a false creation by what they term a hostile Western media.
27  They separated into three hostile tribes, and darted upon each other from ambush with dreadful war-whoops, and killed each other by thousands.
28  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.
29  In general, reliability is the ability of a system to perform its functions in routine circumstances, as well as hostile or unexpected circumstances.
30  Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.