How to Use antagonist in a Sentence

antagonist

noun

• And that means that being seen as a Trump antagonist is a sure-fire way to lose the GOP nomination.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Feb. 2022
• Guardians 3 already has plenty of heroes, so common sense dictates that Iwuji is an antagonist, if not a full-fledged villain.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 21 Jan. 2022
• The trailer also gives us a look at the show’s antagonist, Ethan Hawke’s mysterious character.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 Feb. 2022
• Isabelle isn’t even the only major death of the episode, meanwhile, as series antagonist Genet (Anne Charrier) dies as well.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Oct. 2024
• If the suicide attempt is the dramatic heart of the book, its bill becomes a churning antagonist, a catalyst for describing how Maloney paid off a debt, month by month, for a decade.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Think about it: Cheryl Blossom is the antagonist of the show.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018
• The moves that changed were more about the antagonist and the real world stakes and how high that needed to go.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
• The main antagonist of the movie was written as this kind of beefy, tough, 45-year-old guy.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• The party reflects on Sephiroth, the antagonist, and what’s led him to cause so much chaos in the world.
  — George Yang, PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2024
• If Formal Growth is a book, time is the antagonist, and one to be wrestled with and feared.
  — Dora Segall, SPIN, 6 June 2023
• Spacey was cast in a voice-only role as the main antagonist.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
• To be sure, there is no shortage of Clinton antagonists who would like to see her in the dock.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 July 2019
• Friend is the story’s lead antagonist, a man who leads the armies and will square off against Boutella.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2022
• In it, the antagonist Thanos destroys half the universe.
  — Max Rymer, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Where did the idea come that the main character was to be a plunger and the antagonist a vacuum?
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• Why make Crosshair turn on his unit and become what seems like will be a main antagonist here at the start of the series?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• Why turn one of the Bad Batch members into the show's main antagonist?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• One by one, his antagonists fell by the wayside, and Kushner was there to fill the void.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 16 Jan. 2020
• And then the plan was always to reveal her to be this sort of closet antagonist at the end of season 1.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• But there’s a tennis match to be played, an antagonist to be whupped.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• One is a major antagonist off in the distance: that's Thrawn.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• And so, really, the thing to overcome is the fame of it all, and that almost becomes the main antagonist in a way.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
• Huggy Wuggy is one of the antagonist monsters in the game.
  — Andy Robertson, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• Soon, the antagonists seized on force parity as a way to reduce the risk of conflict.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• Thanos, the chief antagonist of the most recent Avengers cycle.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
• Thus to force an antagonist of the concept to employ the term is to win while skipping the argument.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Mahathir long seemed to relish his role as an antagonist to the West.
  — Adam Schreck, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• The problem is his team, the Golden State Warriors, aren’t long for these playoffs, and what good is an antagonist off the stage?
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
• O’Neal sold last year — not exactly the kind of place that would shut up antagonist Charles Barkley.
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• As the war with Hamas began, another longtime antagonist to Israel launched its own attacks.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024