Example sentences for: villains

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

  • In the pursuit that follows, the hero rummages around in the motorcycle's saddlebag, produces a chain saw, starts it with one hand, and tosses it over his shoulder into the windshield of the villains' truck.

  • In the New York Review of Books , for example, the Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, one of the chief modern villains of Orientalism , decried Said's inflammatory tone and questioned his knowledge of history, philology, and Arabic.

  • The only problem is that he's come to power at the dawn of a confusing new era, when globalization is blurring national boundaries and the world is more vulnerable than ever before to random, heavily accented terrorist villains.

  • The office of U.N. secretary-general is traditionally a refuge for knaves, lickspittles, and villains (in Kurt Waldheim's case, all three at once).

  • Despite the familiarity of its premise (government lawyers hunt down villains and prosecute them), it is said to be less than formulaic.


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