How to Use aggressor in a Sentence

aggressor

noun

• Each country accused the other of being the aggressor.
• In the first half, the Tigers (7-2, 5-1) were the aggressor on their home field in front of a loud crowd.
  — Chip Souza, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2022
• That’s at the core of the tragedy of being an aggressor.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
• At the top of Wednesday night's game plan: be the aggressor.
  — The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2024
• The man who had been driving the car appeared to have been the aggressor.
  — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2022
• The Celtics were the aggressors early, scoring the game’s first 10 points.
  — Kyle Hightower, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
• This is atrocious, this is wrong, this is the aggressor, this is the one that needs to end this war.
  — Manu Raju, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• Russia is the aggressor, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
  — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• The moral fault for an attack such as this lies with the aggressor who opened fire.
  — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• The man who attacked the aggressor then leveled a blow to his head.
  — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2020
• The caller said the aggressor, a Richfield man, had a gun.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 6 May 2020
• The insurgents from the hard right of the GOP are usually the aggressors.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The aggressor’s rights do not take precedence over the rights of its victims.
  — Lawrence H. Summers, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
• Mays’ sister said the group that approached them were the aggressors.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Parents rushed to the aide of the injured athlete as the referee ushered the aggressor off the mat.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
• This case doesn’t present a clear aggressor or victim; a clear right or wrong.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
• Her family claimed Ma'Khia and Ja'Niah were the ones who had called 911 to the scene for help, as opposed to being the aggressor.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 14 May 2021
• And in their eyes, Seth was almost always the aggressor.
  — Anne-Marie Green, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2023
• Portland came out as the aggressors in the second half, and Austin wilted.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• First, the use of force must be proportionate to the force employed by the aggressor.
  — Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2021
• So Tueller assigned one officer to play the role of the aggressor.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Dec. 2021
• And they'll be reminded that there was some back and forth, and so who's the initial aggressor?
  — NBC News, 14 Nov. 2021
• Auburn was the first-half aggressor getting five of its seven sacks on Young.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 27 Nov. 2021
• Coach Justine Sowry said earlier in the week U of L had to be the aggressor and play to its strengths to advance.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2021
• Garcia spent Round 7 as the aggressor, but then came the quick exchange ending with a lightning-fast left to the body.
  — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Body cam footage showed that the deputy was the aggressor, and his lawsuit was quietly dropped last month.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2021
• Ukraine has a right to defend itself against the aggressor and Ukraine has the right to request help from all of its partners.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 18 July 2022
• The party that is judged to be the aggressor could alienate fence sitters that view the war from a moral perspective.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Putin has become more than just an aggressor engaged in a pursuit of empire building.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
• That same day, Putin enacted a new doctrine permitting a potential nuclear response to conventional attacks on Russia if the aggressor is backed by a nuclear power.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025