Sample sentences for ANTAGONIST

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Definition

someone who offers opposition or is hostile

Specialized Definitions of antagonist:

literature or storytelling: the most important character who opposes the main character or protagonist
physiology: a muscle that relaxes when another muscle contracts
chemistry and biology: a substance that interferes with the effect of another substance

In the movie, Star Wars, Darth Vader is the antagonist to Luke Skywalker.

antagonist = enemy

In the book, Harry Potter, Voldemort is Harry's antagonist.

antagonist = enemy

Franklin regarded nature as an antagonist that would inevitably submit to force, good breeding, and Victorian discipline.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

antagonist = someone who offers opposition

So their self-denial, their purposefulness, their suspicion of all vain pursuits, their hard-handed justice were altogether perfect instruments for the conquest of this space so antagonistic to man.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

antagonistic = hostile

He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
But the blows of the antagonist began to grow more weak.
Crane, Stephen -- The Red Badge of Courage
In such case he played the Game, and the goal of the Game was to down an antagonist and keep that antagonist down for a space of ten seconds.
London, Jack -- The Game
I was convinced that man's strongest antagonist is the cold.
Cather, Willa -- My Antonia
On the ground, children from Devil's Row closed in on their antagonist.
Crane, Stephen -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Presently, after moving, he leaned back and gazed with a curious abstraction at his antagonist.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
...he offered himself as his antagonist at backgammon.
Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice
when bending the elbow the triceps are the antagonist
The roads confound him; they've knotted up, dark, antagonistic; he pits himself against them, valiant, a man doing battle for love.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
A few were antagonistic and openly so; like Ammu they saw their share of the food shrinking with each additional mouth.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
Because it made Colonel Julyan antagonistic, it put him on our side.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
Ruth liked the antagonistic little dogs, who barked ardently as she passed.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
You must believe me when I say not all among the Circle are so antagonistic as Thomas.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
He shrugged, openly antagonistic now, provoking her purposely, she suspected.
Stephen King -- Cujo
Yet they didn't seem overly antagonistic, despite the hour.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
'You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated or deceived.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

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