How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun

• If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• But portraying the cops as the bad guys in this clown show seems very unfair.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• In espionage fiction, there’s a clear good guy and bad guy.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2019
• Then there’s the obligatory bad guy, straight out of Scooby-Doo.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• There’s a protagonist, an antagonist, a good guy and a bad guy.
  — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• One common trope in these titles is to include the name of a bad guy and/or organization in the movie itself.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• That's before Billie Eilish dethroned him, sweeping in up top like the bad guy late last month (duh).
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2019
• What the mainstream media never reports is that the surge in violence, especially murders, is mostly bad guys killing each other.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
• The appealing characters fight bad guys hiding in the town’s brand-new mall, squabble but eventually make up, chase monsters and suffer some growing pains of adolescence.
  — oregonlive.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• There are players and coaches, commissioners and owners—but also doctors, judges, media figures, good guys and bad guys, and a few names that are likely unfamiliar to most fans.
  — Mark Mravic, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Aimed squarely at an audience that grew up watching the Mystery Inc. gang bust bad guys in monster suits, the series takes a different approach with season-long arcs.
  — Will Harris, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024
• Mr Tanaka is a suave, Suntory-sipping spook who runs a ninja school in a remote castle, and helps Mr Bond storm the bad guy’s volcano lair.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Popcorn will be on hand for audience members to toss at the dastardly bad guys, artistic director Renee Van Nifterik said.
  — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2019
• And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
  — Paul Letersky, Time, 22 July 2021
• Dom's kind of set up as the bad guy in that first film.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 25 June 2021
• There are a lot of crazies in the city and a lot of bad guys.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• The main thing is this: There doesn’t have to be a bad guy and a good guy here.
  — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2021
• But the big one to think about is this: Who are the real bad guys here?
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 7 May 2021
• It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
• One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 25 Nov. 2022
• Mom picks off bad guys in the desert with her sniper rifle.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
• The bad guys will be the players who keep bringing it up.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 18 Feb. 2020
• And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
• And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
• So maybe just remember who the bad guy is here (ie, the virus).
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 22 May 2020
• The real question now is whether Eleanor is a bad guy, too.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• Yet, too often, the story still smears a broad brush on the same bad guy, the rancher.
  — Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024