sabre-rattling

noun

1. informal,  seeking to intimidate by an aggressive display of military power

Example Sentences

"This is not sabre-rattling. This is about consistently performing our mission and going out and demonstrating the full range of capabilities that the alliance has."

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“Geographically, New Zealand is far from the war in Europe, the tinder-box that is the Middle East, the sabre-rattling in the South China Sea, and the domestic politics in the U.S.A.,”

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Eritrea dismissed his comments as "reckless sabre-rattling", amid fears that relations between the two nations - who fought a border war that killed tens of thousand of people in the late 1990s - were once again deteriorating.

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But Medvedev has long been accused of nuclear sabre-rattling via social media.

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While taking questions from reporters, Trump was pressed on the idea that all his monetary sabre-rattling leads to nothing.

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