Wondering how to use Hostility in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as enmity or unfriendliness.
Hostility in a sentence
Hostility meaning
- The state of being hostile.
- A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Synonyms of Hostility
Using Hostility
- The main meaning on this page is: The state of being hostile. | A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
- Useful related words include: ill will, enmity, unfriendliness, antagonism.
- In the example corpus, hostility often appears in combinations such as: hostility to, hostility and, hostility towards.
Context around Hostility
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hostility
- In this selection, "hostility" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, muslim, expect, experienced, toward, worked and misogyny stand out and add context to how "hostility" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and even hostility and at times hostility between customers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hostility" sits close to words such as arcade, assaults and coca, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hostility
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But like my fellow countrymen and women, I faced contempt and hostility there. (13 words)
Council meetings are filled with open hostility and executive staff have fled for neighboring communities. (15 words)
Similarly, people may expect hostility in others and actually induce this hostility by their own behavior. (16 words)
Coming after more than a decade of hostility between the two, the Russian-mediated Ankara-Damascus thaw began late last year when the Turkish and Syrian defense ministers and intelligence chiefs held the first high-level meeting in Moscow. (39 words)
Black workers at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, have routinely endured stereotyping, racial insults and hostility since at least 2015, according to the suit filed in federal court by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (35 words)
But Netanyahu’s coalition may test that relationship, given of hostility toward Christians and Christian worship by some members of the coalition’s five religious parties to the right of the premier’s Likud. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Independent Group of Experts on Muslim Hostility worked for three years on the comprehensive report about racism and hostility toward the country's 5.5 million Muslims.
Similarly, people may expect hostility in others and actually induce this hostility by their own behavior.
A 12-day extension of the contract and the talks shortly before an initial deadline in late June brought some hope a deal would be reached, but the hostility only grew.
A charity has been accused of running a campaign of hostility, misogyny and bullying against proposals to develop a farm in Powys that was controversially bought by the Welsh government.
Although Peruvians of all backgrounds take pride in the history of the Inca Empire, the country’s Indigenous population is often treated with neglect and even hostility.
A new study shows that over 85 per cent of women have experienced hostility because of their achievements.
As a result of his deep commitment to the PDP, Shema resisted the temptation to decamp to the APC despite the hostility he faced from APC administration after the 2015 general elections.
As a result of that strife, it’s all too common for hair care shopping experiences to be plagued by distrust and, at times, hostility between customers and merchants.
Beyond the technical matters, the relationship between the regulators and farmers should also be improved so that disease outbreaks can be managed collaboratively with no hostility.
Black workers at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, have routinely endured stereotyping, racial insults and hostility since at least 2015, according to the suit filed in federal court by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Both rulings follow the court’s legacy of hostility around voting rights over the last decade.
But, if someone shows hostility to a particular Jewish individual, or institution, this may be for reasons quite distinct from their Jewishness.
But like my fellow countrymen and women, I faced contempt and hostility there.
But Netanyahu’s coalition may test that relationship, given of hostility toward Christians and Christian worship by some members of the coalition’s five religious parties to the right of the premier’s Likud.
But the unspoken tensions that only simmered in the past boiled over into outright hostility and sabotage once Mississippi’s capital turned Black—first in its demographics, and then in its political leadership.
Coming after more than a decade of hostility between the two, the Russian-mediated Ankara-Damascus thaw began late last year when the Turkish and Syrian defense ministers and intelligence chiefs held the first high-level meeting in Moscow.
Council meetings are filled with open hostility and executive staff have fled for neighboring communities.
Criticism of government actions by civil society organizations and individuals is met with aggressive hostility, while a culture of fear of recrimination and victimization for any such criticism is being cultivated.
During the six years of her asylum process and despite her young age, Imani said she was faced with constant disbelief and hostility by officials who regularly threatened her with deportation.
Each time she complained, Nima said she was met with “hostility or disrespect” while conditions continued to deteriorate.
Common combinations with hostility
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hostility to 26×
- hostility and 23×
- hostility towards 22×
- of hostility 20×
- hostility toward 18×
- and hostility 16×
- hostility from 13×
- the hostility 12×
- with hostility 11×
- hostility between 7×