How to Use aggressor in a Sentence

aggressor

noun

• Each country accused the other of being the aggressor.
• In the first half, the Tigers (7-2, 5-1) were the aggressor on their home field in front of a loud crowd.
  — Chip Souza, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2022
• At the top of Wednesday night's game plan: be the aggressor.
  — The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2024
• The man who had been driving the car appeared to have been the aggressor.
  — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2022
• The Celtics were the aggressors early, scoring the game’s first 10 points.
  — Kyle Hightower, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
• Russia is the aggressor, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
  — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022
• The insurgents from the hard right of the GOP are usually the aggressors.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The aggressor’s rights do not take precedence over the rights of its victims.
  — Lawrence H. Summers, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
• Mays’ sister said the group that approached them were the aggressors.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Parents rushed to the aide of the injured athlete as the referee ushered the aggressor off the mat.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
• And in their eyes, Seth was almost always the aggressor.
  — Anne-Marie Green, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2023
• Portland came out as the aggressors in the second half, and Austin wilted.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• Garcia spent Round 7 as the aggressor, but then came the quick exchange ending with a lightning-fast left to the body.
  — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• Ukraine has a right to defend itself against the aggressor and Ukraine has the right to request help from all of its partners.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 18 July 2022
• The party that is judged to be the aggressor could alienate fence sitters that view the war from a moral perspective.
  — Andrew F. Krepinevich, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Hate crimes, which are predicated on the state of mind of the aggressor, are challenging to prove in court.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• San Antonio was the aggressor in the opening half, building a 9-4 lead in shots through the first 45 minutes.
  — Greg Luca, Chron, 29 June 2022
• How could someone who was running away be the aggressor?
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• Henriquez has testified that Depp was the aggressor against Heard in a fight on a staircase.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• The woman, however, alleged that the man was the aggressor and punched her son first, which led her to pull out a pocketknife and stab him once in the stomach.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• By quarter’s end, the Beavers led 20-15. OSU continued to be the aggressor early in the second quarter.
  — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2023
• In the weeks after the invasion, Francis refused to name Russia as the aggressor.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 25 July 2023
• With his teeth clamped firmly on the aggressor’s arm, the burly, nearly all-black shepherd hung on as he was swung around in circles, all four paws in the air as the two struggled.
  — oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2023
• Arguing in support of self-defense, Margerum stated his client was not the aggressor in the fight and that the surveillance video proved it.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Sep. 2022
• This time, there was an offense designed around Adebayo the aggressor.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2022
• If that can be done, as Ukraine has commendably shown, then the aggressor basically cannot bring it to heel.
  — Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• The idea of the Apache as a singular, extinct tribe, one that put up a notable fight in the face of a conquering aggressor, is at the core of Natives in Tech's grievance.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2023
• Grant’s, the aggressor to avoid a feared unseemly effect.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2022
• In fact, the Panthers were the aggressor early and were outshooting the Stars 25-23 after two periods.
  — Stefan Stevenson, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
• The pair become famous for their sometimes testy radio back-and-forths – Colton the sometimes heated aggressor and his dad the calm voice of reason.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024