Example sentences for: villain

How can you use “villain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And while I think logic and evidence are on my side--that demography, not crony capitalism, is the villain, and inflation is the answer--it is certainly possible that I am wrong.

  • Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).

  • … Others honored include Frank DeVol, the composer of the Brady Bunch theme; stripper Lili St. Cyr; Gorilla Monsoon, the first pro wrestling villain; and Frederick Hart, the traditionalist sculptor the art world stupidly ignored.

  • Ten years ago, George Lucas dubbed a two-headed Willow monster the Ebersisk and christened his villain General Kael.

  • As for the supreme villain, he is unlikely to appear again in public.


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