How to Use villain in a Sentence

villain

noun

• He plays the villain in most of his movies.
• Don't try to make me the villain. It's your own fault that you're having these problems.
• She describes her first husband as a villain who treated her terribly.
• The Movie in 1978, in the role of the evil villain Lex Luthor.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2023
• In films, the villain was the bad guy trying to take over the world.
  — Valentina Mejia, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• That’s the deal for a villain, as Green long ago learned.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• Langer even brings great depth to the villain of the story.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
• On Brazil’s right, fans have their own villain on the team: the coach, Tite.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• The villain of the story is Haman, the adviser to the king.
  — CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Each side wants to present itself as the hero, and the other as the villain.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• One of the reasons why is that an old villain has turned up to save the day.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Dec. 2022
• For Percy, the math is easy: Medusa is a villain, and Perseus is a hero.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2024
• Busch has never been afraid to speak his mind and take on the role of a villain.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
• Paul was aptly cast as the heel and leaned into the part of the villain with ease.
  — Steven Monacelli, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2022
• And now in the final cut, Stormfront is the real villain of the movie.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 June 2022
• That’s really the ending for both the hero and the villain.
  — Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• So the horror villain of the summer is the pregnant man.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• The villain, Harper (Jamie Bell), is clear to viewers from the start.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 22 Apr. 2022
• The first movie is dedicated to the villain, who beats the Avengers.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Dec. 2022
• And of course, Archie is not this season's main villain.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 June 2024
• Ainge, who scored 30 points in Game 2, was already a villain to Bucks fans.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2022
• In the movie, Elba plays Knuckles, who is one half of a villain.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 Apr. 2022
• The fanbase is too big, the villain is too strong, and the potential is too high.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 18 Feb. 2022
• The main villain is once again Col. Quaritch (Stephen Lang).
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
• Chucky is back again, and this time the villain has a love interest.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 19 Oct. 2022
• The film stars, of all people, Hugh Grant, who is said to have an amazing turn as a villain in the film.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
• Laws is, to a large extent, the villain of the film, but Woodbine refused to see him that way.
  — Stuart Miller, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• There was no doubt about it: Charles and Camilla were the villains of this chapter.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
• Even when a big threat does arrive on the scene, the heroes aren't there right away, so plenty of innocent people get hurt before a villain gets brought to justice.
  — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
• He’s also considered by many historians to be the first villain, the first person who was villainized by the patriots in a major way.
  — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025