How to Use antagonism in a Sentence

antagonism

noun

• The region has a long history of ethnic antagonisms.
• Dave Moore: How much of the intense anger has to do with Brexit and class antagonism?
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• In the late 1580s, their antagonism broke out into a brawl fought with pens instead of swords.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2021
• Page and Pine have a blast playing off their antagonism; even Edgin knows Xenk should be the hero of this movie.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
• The bill also serves as a strong response of sorts to the Supreme Court’s hints of antagonism towards other rights.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 July 2022
• There was a twinge of antagonism in her touch, her hands directing him, yanking at him to stay still.
  — Ayşegül Savaş, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• There has been too much antagonism in wholesale channels - a problem that has lived on for decades.
  — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• There's certainly no small amount of antagonism between the two sides at present.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 30 July 2021
• Despite his age — 43 — McDowell was attuned to the swirl of online antagonism in the city.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 30 Jan. 2023
• Denby declines to talk on the record about the antagonism, which caught the company by surprise, but news of the provocative idea swept through the industry.
  — Anna Kramer, WIRED, 18 July 2023
• The lions/lambs/liars antagonism replaces the old battle between hawks and doves.
  — Armond White, National Review, 17 May 2023
• By 2015, antagonism toward this waxy treat had set hard.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
• And those forces’ arrival comes at a time of rising antagonism between Belarus and Ukraine.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Their antagonism runs deep and their story is rife with tragedy, not least because the Mad Titan killed their mother and father along with the rest of their home planet.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• Some analysts also hope that Mr. Xi will find a way to claim victory in the election and step back from antagonism.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• His commanding stature fills the Black soldiers with pride and the white military men with a mix of antagonism and confusion.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• That antagonism would lead to one of the country’s earliest vaccine fights.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• There are subtle signs that the mood in Washington may be starting to shift away from the last few years of competitive antagonism.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
• All that antagonism may explain why the term is so backloaded.
  — Greg Stohr, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2022
• So, their sense of their relationship to a piece of legislation like the Homestead Act is one of antagonism.
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2022
• In fact, Gottlieb and Caro had a long history of antagonism, squabbling over things large and small, including the semicolon.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 30 June 2022
• Indeed, a degree of antagonism was lurking almost from the start.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• But by framing the antagonism as a clash of civilizations, Biden is playing to China’s strengths.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• In this context, the reaction from both players and the media to the recent run of antagonism in NBA arenas reflects a new willingness to name the problem.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• Yet another notch in his belt was defeating antagonism from Leech Lake walleye anglers in the mid-2000s, when catch rates sank.
  — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• For all the antagonism the recordings have stirred up, no one is sure the eight brittle reel-to-reels will survive an effort to convert them into digital recordings.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• In Morrissette II the Court found that the fact that the children were on all sides of the transaction did not taint the transaction because of the disharmony and antagonism within the family.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 6 June 2021
• What was clear and palpable was the antagonism among residents, who all blamed Russia.
  — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
• Public antagonism to Mather became so great that someone lobbed a bomb through his study window.
  — Willard Sterne Randall, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
• But Xi has his hands full with domestic strains and may want to avoid another round of tit-for-tat antagonism with the Biden administration.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024