How to Use warmonger in a Sentence

warmonger

noun
  • Prince Chauncley is a bit more song-and-dance than warmonger.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Gone was any hint of the warmonger his critics have portrayed him as.
    — Gardiner Harris and Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • This episode serves, mostly, as a reminder of the costs of war—and who pays the price for the whims of the warmongers.
    — Roxane Gay, WIRED, 11 June 2016
  • Thirst for war – maximum pressure – should go with the warmonger-in-chief.
    — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • John Bolton is a terrifying warmonger who loves to blow things up.
    — Molly Jong-Fast, Vogue, 11 July 2020
  • Your opponent will be deemed a warmonger, and collapse into chaos.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Tho declined the award, but the decision to award Kissinger shocked many of his critics who saw him as a warmonger.
    — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Babis, meanwhile, condemned the war while also casting Pavel as a warmonger.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Those who opposed the agreement were smeared as warmongers who shared a common cause with the Iranian-regime hardliners.
    — Matthew Rj Brodsky, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Mayor Mamdani is free from the pressures of lobbyists and warmongers who try to cultivate and flip rising stars.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Babis presented himself as a peacemaker and labeled Pavel a warmonger due to his military past.
    — Karel Janicek, ajc, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Petro, meanwhile, has described himself as a left-wing moderate and Duque as a far-right warmonger who would reignite national tensions.
    — Anthony Faiola, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
  • People of peace have no PR machine and no media budget - so media narratives are skewed toward warmongers.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • As a rebuke to warmongers, a monument from one Hohenzollern despot to another seems inapt and more like a hint to keep those hobnail jackboots handy.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The gap between what Russians know to be true about the war and what the Kremlin says about it has grown so wide that even warmongers like Dugin struggle to bridge it.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • The title character is the son of the over-achieving ruler and warmonger Charlemagne in 8th century Europe.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2022
  • The base of the party demands populist messages that speak to them and not Chamber of Commerce messages, not neocon messages, not warmonger messages.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Democrats saw him as a master of dark arts, beholden to his former pals in the oil industry and a warmonger who goaded the nation to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to help his benefactors.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers.
    — Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 16 June 2025
  • This is a warmonger that is basing his policy decisions around the region on narcissism and political ambitions that don't go beyond staying in power for no more than one month.
    — Leila Fadel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • After decades of being manipulated and held captive, some hosts may feel the freedom to become vengeance-seeking warmongers; others may seek a path of more personal fulfillment.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Bush’s two administrations made America a torturer and a warmonger.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Cornell, Columbia and Northwestern’s boards are stacked with warmongers whose profits are threatened by student protesters.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
  • After losing friends who criticized him as a warmonger, Luckey is suddenly feeling vindicated.
    — Zach Everson, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • The government accuses Western media of falsely portraying Abiy as a warmonger.
    — Simon Marks and Declan Walsh New York Times, Star Tribune, 23 Jan. 2021
  • No one bothered him about being an unrepentant warmonger who, as Anthony Bourdain has famously noted, belongs in prison.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Steppenwolf is a real DC Comics villain, an immortal warmonger who Superman will likely return in the nick of time to stop.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The name ‘Raiders’ has negative connotations — synonyms include pillager, warmonger and aggressor.
    — New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • The resulting film, Yes—opening this week in New York City—begins with an orgiastic carnival among warmongers in Tel Aviv.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Before the bombs dropped, those who supported America’s fight abroad — and companies like Vault-Tec, which profited from it — were labeled warmongers and evil capitalists.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2024

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