Sentence examples for belligerent gesture from inspiring English sources
One of them, little Arthur Kaye, made a belligerent gesture and cried, "I 'ope you'll 'op in and give 'em 'ell now!" and small Mrs. Max Chrystler said, "I knew you'd have 'em all on ye, straight away".
I can only guess he nailed it up in a spirit of defiance, maybe akin to the way some rappers use the N-word: as a belligerent gesture of identity politics.
AN UNTESTED youngster, keen to assert his leadership ahead of the April 15th centenary of the birth of his revered grandfather, Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, might easily have opted for a more belligerent first gesture to the outside world.
The government in Pyongyang retreated into belligerent isolation after years of hesitant steps toward openness, though Mr. Kim's critics have dismissed those earlier gestures as a mere ploy by the North to wring more aid from the South.
"Proof, not belligerent assertion.
He was intensely belligerent.
Russia is more belligerent.
"It means belligerent, argumentative, confrontational".
Sir Malcolm Rifkind was more belligerent.
