combatively

Example Sentences

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They performed combatively in the Scottish Cup final last season, but lost.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

Mr. Bennett did not reveal the details of his new vision for Iran, but the policies he cited could just as easily have been articulated by Mr. Netanyahu, if perhaps more combatively.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

In an emergency online meeting, board members questioned the district’s superintendents, at times combatively.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

It was nothing like my book, a memoir based on lists written by my grandmother, so its existence should not have troubled me, yet my writing life somehow became combatively interwoven with his.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2019

“But that will be never,” her oldest daughter said combatively.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy