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.
  • As for who that villain will be?
    — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 7 June 2026
  • Bear is a villain in his own right.
    — Olivia Tauber, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
  • There is no villain and no overt harm.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe this is about to be my villain era.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • And where do the villains come in?
    — Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Navy blue is the show’s villain.
    — Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Gotta have a good villain, folks.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 June 2026
  • That’d be fun to be a villain, right?
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
  • This might be my last villain for quite a while.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Who’s the villain on your show?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • Who’s the villain on your show?
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 May 2026
  • That one may smile and smile and be a villain.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • New York has a new sports villain.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But, um, filler words aren’t the villains they’re made out to be.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Ethan Hawke didn't want to play a villain.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The ones to watch out for are the ones who should be villains that aren’t.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 May 2026
  • Where the series falls flat is in the search for villains.
    — Beau Dure, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Like the fact that Busch was the sport’s villain for so long.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2026
  • Heat is the villain in the piece — heat and certain glands.
    — Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The villains in this show keep switching places.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • King isn’t here to paint labels as villains.
    — Matt Emma, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This isn’t a movie about heroes and villains.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no clear hero or villain throughout most of the movie.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 10 Oct. 2025
  • There are no clear heroes or villains.
    — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • And there’s this whole villain arc going on.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In films, the villain was the bad guy trying to take over the world.
    — Valentina Mejia, refinery29.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • And, hey, the league is better when there are villains.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 5 June 2026

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