Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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"If our country is not strong, then others will bully us, so we hope for a stronger country, especially military-wise. We wouldn't want to bully others, but to protect ourselves."
From Reuters ● Jul. 1, 2021
She will bully, and I never could stand being bullied—I always knock under.
From A Terrible Secret by May Agnes Fleming
He will bully and browbeat if he can, and he will coax and cajole if he can't.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
You've lost me one seat of my borough, with your infernal pride—fifteen hundred a year, by Jove!—and you think you will bully me out of another.
From The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by William Makepeace Thackeray
In twenty years,' or in fifty years, I forget which it was, 'they will be so powerful that they will bully all Europe.'
From Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 by John Bright
