combatively

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

Head hung down combatively, the first model sported a fierce, minimalist black body suit with white lines — both like a skeleton and a cutting pattern.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2022

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