ANTAGONIST in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for ANTAGONIST, such as:

1. But the blows of the antagonist began to grow more weak.
2. I was convinced that man's strongest antagonist is the cold.
3. A specific leukotriene receptor antagonist awaits development.
4. Bazarov flung aside the pistol, and went up to his antagonist.
5. When Uncas had brained his first antagonist, he turned, like a hungry lion, to seek another.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANTAGONIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
antagonist
 n.  one who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; opponent
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Your challenge would soon be answered," replied the Palmer, "were your antagonist near you.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Secondly, any knight proposing to combat, might, if he pleased, select a special antagonist from among the challengers, by touching his shield.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  In this second encounter, the Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly, that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Ivanhoe, extricating himself from his fallen horse, was soon on foot, hastening to mend his fortune with his sword; but his antagonist arose not.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  This brief direction to Charley Bates, and his recent antagonist, was softly and immediately obeyed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
7  "An outspoken, honest antagonist is the doctor," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
8  Mrs. Dorset was pale with temper, and her antagonist felt a certain pleasure in prolonging her distress.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  I was convinced that man's strongest antagonist is the cold.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  With ready skill, Hawkeye and his antagonist each grasped that uplifted arm of the other which held the dangerous knife.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
11  When Uncas had brained his first antagonist, he turned, like a hungry lion, to seek another.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  The battery was disputing with a distant antagonist and the gunners were wrapped in admiration of their shooting.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  But the blows of the antagonist began to grow more weak.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
14  Bazarov flung aside the pistol, and went up to his antagonist.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  A sparrow fluttering about the church is an antagonist which the most profound theologian in Europe is wholly unable to overcome.
2  A specific leukotriene receptor antagonist awaits development.