Sentence examples for combative as from inspiring English sources

Jen is consistently the most combative, as is documented by a flashback to earlier days in the desert when she fought and succumbed to Lo (Mr. Chang), who becomes her lover and years later goes to the city to prevent her arranged marriage.

He remains as combative as ever.

Mr. Skilling was as combative as ever.

Was the teenage Mr. Barry as combative as his contemporaries?

But it's all never quite as exciting and combative as you might expect.

The first panelist, Ann Tickamyer of Ohio University, was not as combative as the session's title.

It has been Ashcroft's combative posture, as much as the substance of his proposals, that has raised the emotional temperature on his initiatives.

This attracted press attention with such combative lyrics as, "I laughed when Lennon got shot".

Social media, enormously popular in India, but as combative there as anywhere else, has also reduced the room for nuance.

Diehards like Rage Against the Machine, Beck, Hole, Everclear, Garbage, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails still seek to keep rock as combative intellectually as it is sonically.

(The idea of love as a combative game or as dramatic theater — "It's a spiel," squeals Mr. Reischl, using the German word for "play" at one point — is a pervasive one).