How to Use antagonist in a Sentence

antagonist

noun

• Spacey was cast in a voice-only role as the main antagonist.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• In it, the antagonist Thanos destroys half the universe.
  — Max Rymer, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Think about it: Cheryl Blossom is the antagonist of the show.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That seems to indicate that the antagonist will make a fiery return to the second season.
  — Jennifer Lance, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2019
• Who are the protagonists and who are the antagonists in this story?
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
• Mahathir long seemed to relish his role as an antagonist to the West.
  — Adam Schreck, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• That level of nuance doesn’t extend to the antagonists of the picture.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019
• On this episode, both men had new antagonists to contend with.
  — refinery29.com, 28 May 2018
• 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
• Huggy Wuggy is one of the antagonist monsters in the game.
  — Andy Robertson, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• But there’s a tennis match to be played, an antagonist to be whupped.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• Thanos, the chief antagonist of the most recent Avengers cycle.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
• 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
• There is no evil antagonist in this film or villain . .
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 24 Dec. 2017
• 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
• One by one, his antagonists fell by the wayside, and Kushner was there to fill the void.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 16 Jan. 2020
• One is a major antagonist off in the distance: that's Thrawn.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
• In the play there are other antagonists to him who are also very popular.
  — Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Why turn one of the Bad Batch members into the show's main antagonist?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• 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 Formal Growth is a book, time is the antagonist, and one to be wrestled with and feared.
  — Dora Segall, SPIN, 6 June 2023
• This time, though, the antagonists will be doubled, and the once great enemies will be allies.
  — refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
• That bat didn’t go on to be the antagonist in his next horror novel, but there’s a lot of potential there.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2017
• Tesla can afford to play antagonist to Biden, at least for now.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• Now that Rebecca is no longer the show's antagonist, who is?
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024