How to Use antagonize in a Sentence

antagonize

verb

• He didn't mean to antagonize you.
• Her comments antagonized many people.
• The best means of achieving control is to win back the hearts and minds of Hongkongers, not to continue to antagonize them.
  — Time, 2 July 2019
• That's when the neighbor kept putting his arms out antagonizing the dog.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
• The Aztecs annoy and antagonize teams out of their flow, their comfort zone and, often, their on-court minds.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Smith said Parks began to antagonize the occupants of the golf cart.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• But both of them started playing back to the crowd, swatting the crowd away and antagonizing them.
  — EW.com, 6 Nov. 2023
• Each student has been asked to turn in one tweet designed to antagonize Trump.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• The man who once did his share of antagonizing Crips is earning his karma back, and more.
  — Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2024
• When Aaron became the leader of a local group with the same mission, the brothers were once again zealous to the point of antagonizing.
  — Benjamin Wallace, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
• But Marquardt said police were unable to arrest him, and that the staff was afraid to antagonize him by taking him to court.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 29 June 2018
• Elon seems to be going out of his way to antagonize this core audience.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 20 Dec. 2022
• The question is how many of them are willing to openly antagonize Ryan by doing it.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 9 May 2018
• Rollins is known for her bluntness, which wins her fans but can also antagonize.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• Yes, if the result is going to be antagonizing all the couple’s friends.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 4 June 2023
• Learning not to antagonize him could be a game-changer.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2017
• Pop was antagonizing the room, and being pelted with beer, whiskey bottles, bras, and shoes.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• The exchange went as follows: Rose: As a member of the media, our job is to analyze, not antagonize.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 2 May 2018
• Instead, the campaign came to believe that Amy despised Hillary and then antagonized her.
  — Rachael Combe, The Cut, 20 Apr. 2018
• Wearing a Marshmallow Man-like suit, he is instructed to antagonize a pooch, turn and run for his life.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
• Fans spar for most of the year but really antagonize one another this week.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 4 Sep. 2017
• Faragher said the point of Drag Queen Story Hour is not to antagonize anyone or talk about transgender issues.
  — David Rosenfeld, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
• The staff also discussed the need to help Tillerson leave in a respectful way without antagonizing the White House.
  — Elise Labott, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
• That has often meant going out of his way not to antagonize Mr. Trump or his staunchest allies in Congress.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Unlike many in the GOP, Aistrop doesn’t wholly subscribe to the notion of the mainstream news media being out to antagonize the president.
  — Elaina Plott, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2020
• Advantage Clemson there because Renfrow is back to antagonize the Tide for a third straight year.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 28 Dec. 2017
• Perhaps this was the wrong strategy, to antagonize the devil.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• Miller and Lee famously antagonized each other during the 1990s, when the Pacers and Knicks were fierce rivals.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 3 Mar. 2020
• In 2006’s The God Delusion, another mega–best seller, Dawkins antagonized the world’s religions.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
• But what might be considered an unforced error by Trump on Sunday morning in antagonizing Swifties provided the opposing campaign with a perfect opportunity to show some fans some love, in the midst of outrage.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024