Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2021

“It’s such a combatively social world; you’re just in the line of fire all the time. Yet some people seek it more than ever, because somehow, I guess, it’s become identified with existing.”

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

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