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.
• That’s the deal for a villain, as Green long ago learned.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2023
• Each side wants to present itself as the hero, and the other as the villain.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• There was no doubt about it: Charles and Camilla were the villains of this chapter.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
• Reckoning as one of the film's villains, is also a fan of the coconut cake.
  — Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• As such, the role could have easily been reduced to a bit part or a one-note villain.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• Before the show can begin, a new villain emerges named Grape, whose goons, the Sour Bunch, take control of the venue to put on their own show.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
• Those values sharpen Musk’s role as both a hero and villain for Markey.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
• Brock Purdy looks like the second coming of a 49ers villain.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Who knew such villains could exist during the most wonderful time of the year?
  — Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
• And there's a new villain heading for Team Flash, teased in the premiere's stinger scene with a red lightning bat symbol.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• Slaughter was a villain during his initial run in WWE in the early ‘80s.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• And that’s been a dream of mine to get to do, having the protagonist and villain completely aligned.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• Now, his ex-wife has written a novel which includes a villain based on him.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• Legendary big-game hunter Kraven invades New York City to hunt its heroes and villains.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• These are the gay villains who are currently having their moment in the spotlight.
  — Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• And now we’re left wondering: Who was the real villain of this season?
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
• One such challenge was how to write a villain who feels unique when set against a long lineup of the studio’s vintage baddies.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Neither villain nor victim is the main character of this saga.
  — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• But also setting up a new villain and a new story and all these other things while feeling like the next step.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
• Man infiltrates villain’s world with intent on procuring a pound (or two, or 50) of flesh.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
• The Veronica Mars villain Harry Hamlin joins a long list of actors who’ve hopped into the kitchen.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
• So get ready for a bunch of new villains and, honestly, zero heroes.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2023
• Had the outfit been worn by a movie villain, it would instantly be entered into the femme fatale canon.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2023
• Yet this year, and the past few years, a faceless influence has been imposing itself on the plots of Grand Slams and their heroes and villains.
  — Marek Makowski, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
• And in some ways, the game stands on its own, telling a story about a group of friends heading out into the big wide world to track down a villain intent on destroying it.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 May 2024