Examples of villain in a Sentence
He plays the villain in most of his movies.
She describes her first husband as a villain who treated her terribly.
Don't try to make me the villain. It's your own fault that you're having these problems.
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Claire Randall falls through the stones at Inverness and, after escaping the clutches of series-best villain Black Jack Randall, links up with those Highlanders and spends time at Castle Leoch and Lallybroch.
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
There are no villains—or maybe life, or growing up, or getting older, is the villain.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
His grandiose persona rubbed many the wrong way early on, earning him a villain label.
—Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Then, David is joined by the historian and journalist Andrew Roberts to discuss why right-wing podcasters seem so fixated on insisting that Winston Churchill was the villain of the Second World War.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
There are no villains—or maybe life, or growing up, or getting older, is the villain.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
His grandiose persona rubbed many the wrong way early on, earning him a villain label.
—Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Then, David is joined by the historian and journalist Andrew Roberts to discuss why right-wing podcasters seem so fixated on insisting that Winston Churchill was the villain of the Second World War.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Villain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villain. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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