How to Use animus in a Sentence

animus

noun

• She felt an animus against them.
• Why did the court look at that and say, this is not racial animus?
  — CBS News, 28 June 2026
• The animus might have stemmed from the reaction to that song.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• There’s no animus or moral insult in his tone — just a feel for the context of such acts.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• And there is no allegation that this judge was moved by animus.
  — Aziz Huq, Fortune, 5 June 2018
• What this doesn’t mean is that all white people harbor extreme racial animus.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 Apr. 2018
• What are some ways that police determine whether there was racial animus?
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
• That relationship lacked the trash talk, though, along with the clear animus and edge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• White troops who fought alongside Black soldiers held less racial animus post-war.
  — CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• There’s been so many thumbs on the scale especially for wind and solar and such an animus against coal.
  — WSJ, 3 Apr. 2017
• How does Hae Sung not harbour any animus over the way things ended the last time around?
  — Hazlitt, 15 May 2024
• The fan animus was mirrored on ice with several time stoppages for fisticuffs.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 May 2024
• With every new shock, the animus between protesters and agents has grown worse.
  — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
• Mitchell was Black, and activists have suggested the texts prove racial animus played a role in the case.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
• This animus has been persistent in his career and has not changed in any way, and the hearing confirms that.
  — Gwen Aviles, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Still, most contemporary peers and fans agree that the animus mostly had to do with clashing egos.
  — Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022
• The refusal, Driskell later observed, did not spring from racial animus.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• There was no animus in his voice, and indeed the team seemed to be going out of its way to reassure Tai.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The government will likely argue that demonstrates that the charges could have been brought even if there was animus.
  — Peter A. Joy, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2025
• The show’s catalogue calls out the racial and religious animus in this and other images in the show.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Come to think of it, personal animus among the principals is the stuff of the best rivalries.
  — Dallas News, 3 June 2022
• Trump’s animus for ESG is simpler.
  — William Becker, The Hill, 11 Aug. 2025
• Despite the animus at the start of the meeting, some stakeholders remain hopeful that the group could make some progress.
  — Katrina Manson, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
• But when the Fed slips up, or when times get rough, America’s old animus for central banks isn’t far away.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• This is 2020 America, so the clip spurred some racial animus as well.
  — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020
• Police have yet to say whether racial animus is believed to have played any role in Saturday's attack.
  — Laura Strickler, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
• At some point, the clock will expire on any political movement fueled by racial animus.
  — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2026
• The lever the council used to turn its racist animus into racist action was the suppression of tenant power.
  — Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• No, the report assured Asian Americans, the racial animus was not all in your head.
  — New York Times, 3 June 2021
• This starts to kind of engage the racial animus of the 1920s and the 1930s.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026