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Examples of villain in a Sentence
He plays the villain in most of his movies.
She describes her first husband as a villain who treated her terribly.
Don't try to make me the villain. It's your own fault that you're having these problems.
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Similar to the Star Wars packs, the Super Mario cookies featured heroes and villains from the video game’s universe.
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Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
But making the character just a nuttier version of a jokey Australian male stereotype also robs him of the dimensionality that any villain who’s going to support Miller’s reach for mythic proportions would seem to require.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
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Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 May 2024
But making the character just a nuttier version of a jokey Australian male stereotype also robs him of the dimensionality that any villain who’s going to support Miller’s reach for mythic proportions would seem to require.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for villain
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“Villain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villain. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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