How to Use hawkish in a Sentence

hawkish

adjective
  • The hawkish cut is real — kind of.
    — Sean Conlon,pia Singh, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Witkoff's rhetoric has become quite hawkish over the last few weeks.
    — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • And all but two have grown more hawkish since the May meeting.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 17 June 2026
  • This isn't about being hawkish.
    — Brett Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But the tone from many members has turned hawkish since the last meeting.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Watch central banks next week amid hawkish repricing in rates.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Paris has long been more hawkish than Berlin on its support for Ukraine.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
  • The market is taking this as a sign that the central bank won't need to be as hawkish near term.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • Wall Street has started pricing in the risk of a hawkish Fed.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 22 June 2026
  • Although hawkish in tone, the report does not advocate for or against such a project.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Resilient labor markets could keep the Fed hawkish for longer.
    — WSJ, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Markets react For their part, traders weren’t buying the hawkish rhetoric.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Experts said more hawkish views often come to the forefront at times of regional strife.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • For that meeting only, markets may be more hawkish than the Fed itself.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Under Biden, Warsh reprised his hawkish outlook.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Yet the view is hardly isolated to the hawkish, religious far-right.
    — Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The good news is that a more hawkish Fed is not necessarily a bad thing for the stock market.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 17 June 2025
  • Compared to other contenders for the top job, he’s considered more hawkish.
    — Takashi Hirokawa, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The Fed is expected to leave rates untouched this week while signaling a more hawkish lean.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
  • The new president has promised to be less hawkish than Yoon, and his timing is fortuitous.
    — John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2025
  • He is known for hawkish stances on China, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
    — Claudia Grisales, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Central banks institute a hawkish policy response to the oil cost gains.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Amarnath argued that the data has now turned so hawkish that the committee should be debating hikes, not cuts.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Markets were minded to agree with BofA on its take of a hawkish Powell.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 31 July 2025
  • Graham has a long history of hawkish stances on foreign policy.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
  • But on the war and confrontation with the West, the Communists are also on the hawkish side.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Cotton is a strong speaker and media performer, with a more hawkish view of foreign affairs than Vance.
    — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 31 Aug. 2025
  • If anything, this year’s changing of the guard at the FOMC may lead to an even more hawkish stance.
    — Oliver Rust, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Bolton has faced assassination threats from Iran due to his hawkish stance toward the country.
    — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The dollar rose after Powell's more hawkish tone lead traders to pare bets for a big rate cut in November.
    — Sinéad Carew, Reuters, 30 Sep. 2024

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