How to Use bad guy in a Sentence

bad guy

noun
  • There is a good guy and there is a bad guy.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But Nus is a bad guy through and through.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Who are their friends and who are the real bad guys?
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • And Nik's not a bad guy, either.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And Nik's not a bad guy, either.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • And the best story is there’s a bad guy, or there’s a bad alien.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The thing that spooked me most in all this though, wasn’t the bad guys being bad guys.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Boys and men are only human, and there are good guys and bad guys.
    — Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Good guys were really bad guys.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The mindset is quite simply, if there’s a bad guy, find the bad guy.
    — Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 25 Aug. 2025
  • One set of bad guys goes, and another set marches in.
    — Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, Goldwyn doesn’t only play suave bad guys.
    — Dan Heching, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Because there's really no bad guy in the movie.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And for fans of Cincinnati sports, there are plenty of good bad guys.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Cheney never shied away from his bad guy persona.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Don’t let people think that Dev is a bad guy or Hasan is a bad guy.
    — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
  • Dubas isn’t a bad guy for orchestrating a rebuild on his terms.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When are magistrates going to keep bad guys behind bars?
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The problem with this whole thing is there is no bad guy but all these terrible things keep happening.
    — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Is this a bad guy that’s eventually going to wreak havoc?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • There’s something really fun about being a bad guy and would challenge me to find the truths in myself.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2026
  • As ominous music plays, a woman enters a dark building, then checks each room to make sure a bad guy isn’t lurking.
    — Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • During the demo, Batman used his trusty batarangs and the bat-claw to dispatch bad guys and solve puzzles.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Ellner’s boss — the movie’s bad guy — is played by British actor Colin Firth.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
  • And of course, there are a bunch of repercussions about sending a bunch of bad guys to another dimension.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, there are a bunch of repercussions about sending a bunch of bad guys to another dimension.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Lego Batman can effortlessly glide from foe to foe, linking punches and kicks from one bad guy to the next.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Bounty hunters facing off, nearly invincible against normal bad guys, but hard-pressed in an even match.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Beat up bad guys, switch between characters to solve puzzles and smash and build Lego objects to get through the mission.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Our ability to continue to listen to bad guys talking to bad guys abroad continues.
    — CBS News, 14 June 2026

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