How to Use antagonist in a Sentence

antagonist

noun
  • The film appeared to have echoes to the Charles Sobhraj case, even down to the nickname of the antagonist.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Think about it: Cheryl Blossom is the antagonist of the show.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The moves that changed were more about the antagonist and the real world stakes and how high that needed to go.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
  • The main antagonist of the movie was written as this kind of beefy, tough, 45-year-old guy.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Kamal Haasan takes on the role of the antagonist Supreme Yaskin.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The party reflects on Sephiroth, the antagonist, and what’s led him to cause so much chaos in the world.
    — George Yang, PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2024
  • If Formal Growth is a book, time is the antagonist, and one to be wrestled with and feared.
    — Dora Segall, SPIN, 6 June 2023
  • Spacey was cast in a voice-only role as the main antagonist.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • In it, the antagonist Thanos destroys half the universe.
    — Max Rymer, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • One scene shows Rey fighting against Kylo Ren, the main antagonist of the film, atop a ship.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Why turn one of the Bad Batch members into the show's main antagonist?
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • One by one, his antagonists fell by the wayside, and Kushner was there to fill the void.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 16 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • But there’s a tennis match to be played, an antagonist to be whupped.
    — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Over the past few weeks, the Rapid Support Forces, the militia that is the Sudanese army’s main antagonist, raised the stakes further.
    — Lynsey Addario, The Atlantic, 12 May 2025
  • One is a major antagonist off in the distance: that's Thrawn.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And so, really, the thing to overcome is the fame of it all, and that almost becomes the main antagonist in a way.
    — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • Huggy Wuggy is one of the antagonist monsters in the game.
    — Andy Robertson, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Thanos, the chief antagonist of the most recent Avengers cycle.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Mahathir long seemed to relish his role as an antagonist to the West.
    — Adam Schreck, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
  • The problem is his team, the Golden State Warriors, aren’t long for these playoffs, and what good is an antagonist off the stage?
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
  • O’Neal sold last year — not exactly the kind of place that would shut up antagonist Charles Barkley.
    — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
  • Simon was this bomb of a one-season antagonist, to be reformed and to find his true self through Daphne….
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 June 2021
  • 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

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