How to Use antagonism in a Sentence

antagonism

noun

• The region has a long history of ethnic antagonisms.
• He’s done little to bring them over or blunt their antagonism.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• Time for all the antagonism to cease, the yelling to quiet, the division to fall apart, into unity.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• But the president’s antagonism to the policies of his predecessor and the trade status quo are well known.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 8 July 2017
• Party rules that would once have screened out a Trump have given way to partisan antagonisms that empower him.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
• And there was his posture of antagonism toward the party establishment.
  — Steve Kornacki, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2017
• That antagonism stems from the fact that districts are politically captured by teachers’ unions, implacable foes of school choice.
  — Max C. Eden, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
• If only corrosive political antagonisms such as these were so neatly resolved.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2017
• What’s more, the practice of judging a president’s record by his successor’s antagonism to it is a new one, seemingly invented for Obama.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Aug. 2017
• Dave Moore: How much of the intense anger has to do with Brexit and class antagonism?
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• The stakes are too high to let the antagonism continue any longer.
  — Sarah Garland, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Fears are deepening that the current outbreak of antagonism could drag down the rest of the world.
  — Peter S. Goodman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
• But Geto Boys’ dank, hooky antagonism stayed in the spotlight.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
• 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
• The big surprise was how joint membership of the bloc helped bring an end to old antagonisms between the two countries.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• There has been too much antagonism in wholesale channels - a problem that has lived on for decades.
  — Nikki Baird, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• For Trump, the antagonism with China has centered on trade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• The message to Beijing would be clear: Curb North Korea’s antagonism, or feel the noose tighten.
  — Daniel Nidess, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
• There is fault on both sides for the existing antagonism.
  — Sarah Garland, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2020
• Rising toward the top of the list in recent weeks has been growing antagonism between the United States and China, the world’s largest economies.
  — Stan Choe, Alex Veiga, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• 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 horrors of the Battle of Stalingrad are clear, but there's no antagonism towards the Germans.
  — Pan Pylas, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2018
• The horrors of the Battle of Stalingrad are clear, but there’s no antagonism towards the Germans.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• But Biden’s rejoinders were no match for Trump’s antagonism.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
• When Vance ran for Senate, in 2022, his first campaign ad emphasized his antagonism to liberal élites.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024