How to Use antagonist in a Sentence

antagonist

noun

• Think about it: Cheryl Blossom is the antagonist of the show.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Simon was this bomb of a one-season antagonist, to be reformed and to find his true self through Daphne….
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 June 2021
• The world is now divided among fans who want to pose with him for a selfie and antagonists who’d rather throw things at him.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 11 Sep. 2019
• These sets were all the rage at the time, but her suits worn in the office were merely a facet of her character’s arc as an antagonist.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
• In the new book, Rick is hired by a former antagonist to track down a missing woman.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• If that turns out to be true, well—prepare for one hell of a take on one of DC Comics’ most infamous antagonists.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 May 2023
• That level of nuance doesn’t extend to the antagonists of the picture.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
• Lucky One of the best hip-hop artists of all time, Tupac starred as Janet Jackson's antagonist and love interest in the 1993 film.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 23 July 2023
• The Fisher brothers have a new antagonist in the form of their aunt Julia (Kyra Sedgwick).
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
• Also interesting in the list above are the names of Kang variants that will help the main antagonist.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024