How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun

• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
  — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 4 June 2018
• There’d be music and some acting and a bad guy, and a dance.
  — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• But are you fully prepared to dance the night away with your favorite bad guy?
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2024
• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a backpack is a good guy with a backpack.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2018
• Anyway, since Catiline lost the conflict, he’s portrayed as a bad guy.
  — The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
• Players love to cast a clutch spell to damage a bad guy in a big way as well as solve encountes with clever uses of non-combat spells.
  — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
• Road to Perdition got a lot of press at the time for the fact that, hey, look, Hanks is playing a bad guy.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
• Helen could lean in or stretch way back, dispensing with bad guys while always trying to do what was best for her family.
  — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2018
• That in itself was a gift after Avengers: Endgame staged an eye roll-inducing stunt in which all the female superheroes team up to fight a bad guy for five minutes.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
• The bad guys genetically modify an even-more-ferocious dinosaur.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
• For the creepy boys club of Hollywood, an outspoken woman like Ruth, who's also lacking bombshell curves, is a literal bad guy (gal?).
  — refinery29.com, 21 June 2018
• Karim Benzema, theoretically the bad guy in the blackmail case, is from a deprived background in Lyon.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Together, this team of adventurers traveled the world, going on adventures, solving mysteries, thwarting bad guys, monsters, and robots.
  — Josh Weiss, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2018
• 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
• If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024