Sentence examples for like hostile from inspiring English sources

Minnesotans, famous for their niceness, don't seem to like hostile takeovers very much.

The hideous containers are hulked on the shelf like hostile, overweight trolls.

Charged ideological phrases like "hostile Western forces" will not be helpful at the scene of a domestic disaster.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — On optics alone, a New England coastal hub might seem like hostile territory for a Texas governor.

WASHINGTON - Like hostile nations on the edge of apocalypse, Washington's political right and left are on code red over a Supreme Court vacancy that does not yet exist.

Nolfi and the cinematographer, John Toll, have produced a sombrely unified vision of New York as a place of dull skies and frequent downpours, a city whose towers stick up like hostile gray stalagmites.

A different brand of humor pierced the cold air outside, where the atmosphere was more carnival-like than hostile.

Isolated from the city grid, perched on a fortress-like pedestal, hostile to strangers and closed to the outside, it is everything a free society and especially a free city is not.

When the smoke clears in Syria, Islamist forces could emerge triumphant there too, seemingly completing Israel's encirclement by like-minded, hostile governments.Israel's leaders also sensed danger on February 6th at news that Hamas and Fatah, the rival Palestinian party that runs a secular rump state on the West Bank, have agreed to end a bitter feud and form a unity government.

Membership includes leading European economies like Germany and France; emerging economies like India; major energy producers like Norway and Nigeria; hostile neighbors like Eritrea and Ethiopia, or Israel and Syria; and poor states like Liberia and Burkina Faso.

But the inaugural concert of World Peace Orchestra, an international youth ensemble, on Tuesday at Avery Fisher Hall felt more like a hostile takeover than like a lesson in harmony.