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Example sentences for "antagonize"

Lexicographically close words:
antagonisms; antagonist; antagonistic; antagonistical; antagonists; antagonized; antagonizes; antagonizing; ante; antea
  1. For when they ascribe only two parts to repentance, they antagonize the entire Church, which from the time of the apostles has held and believed that there are three parts of repentance--contrition, confession and satisfaction.

  2. She was more suave and insinuating in her manner, and where she had a difficult object to attain she always strove to win by strategy rather than to antagonize her opponents by attempting to drive.

  3. Dear child, nothing that your silver tongue could utter could antagonize me after your sweet generosity to my daughter this afternoon.

  4. I am afraid that you wouldn't understand what I was going to say, Aunt Angie, dear, and I don't want to antagonize you.

  5. He was not ready to antagonize openly those who dreamed of another future for America, and he did not believe that he had a right to do so, since his duty was to carry out the wishes of the people.

  6. I knew that if I did anything to anger or to antagonize him, it would be all at an end with me.

  7. Based on belief, they banish uncertainty, and antagonize doubt and with it investigation.

  8. While action and reaction are equal in inorganic nature, the principle of life modifies the operation of this universal law of force by bringing in nutrition, which, were it complete, would antagonize reaction.

  9. He could not as yet be at heart a persecutor of heresy, yet he could not afford to antagonize the Church.

  10. On the contrary, it may often antagonize them.

  11. But whether it antagonize or approve, it is apt to be vitally related to them.

  12. To antagonize the god of love, or to blame my husband for succumbing to him, would be foolish.

  13. To brave public opinion and antagonize the Lower House of Congress required the largest courage.

  14. This seems to be true, and it comes from the fact that they did not antagonize savage customs.

  15. It is true that it does not antagonize it openly.

  16. These two things have so operated upon American Roman Catholicism as to greatly reform it and almost radically change it, while they did not antagonize it in a spirit of rancor.

  17. Harpe laughed good-naturedly; she had no desire to antagonize Mrs. Terriberry.

  18. It was not the part of wisdom to antagonize Symes, but her desire to convince him, and Augusta, and herself, that hers was the stronger will when it came to a test, was greater than her discretion.

  19. I warn you now that for myself I fear nothing, so that you are powerless against me, but should you antagonize or deride German authority, I may not be able to save you.

  20. On the other hand Muller’s advice had been good; it would be dangerous to antagonize the officer.

  21. There was no reason to bring Shannon into this now and antagonize Rennie all over again.

  22. Mr. Brady says: "You must do nothing whatever to antagonize the interests of the Company, or to create feeling between the Company and its patrons.

  23. You must do nothing whatever to antagonize the interests of the Company, or to create feeling between the Company and its patrons.

  24. No charge of neglect of duty could be made against Mr. Smith, and the only justification the Company offered was the plea that the agent should give his whole time to the Company, and do nothing to antagonize the interests of the Company.

  25. First, how can temperance work "antagonize the interests of the Company?

  26. But there is a much larger and more {273} influential class that is led to antagonize Christianity from patriotic motives other than this.

  27. Not only do they antagonize the missionary and try to push him off the field, but they also antagonize foreign theology, and want to build up a native system with no foreign taint.

  28. It is not the purpose of the Lutheran Church to antagonize any of the bodies now at work in Japan, but rather to stand, amid all the doctrinal unrest characteristic of Japanese Christianity, for pure doctrine, as she has always done.

  29. I did not discuss it because I know I will antagonize him, and I could get a conclusion of my own, right or wrong, and my conclusion on that is that he is, if I may so call him, a rebel against society.

  30. They didn't enjoy it, but as Radbourn was not running for any office and was known to be a powerful thinker, they thought it best not to antagonize him.

  31. It is not to antagonize town and country.

  32. And if I find the evil doer beyond hope of correction, I do not antagonize the doer of it.

  33. Then the men I have had to antagonize do the same, and the voters decide between us.

  34. But because I can influence them, the other leaders don't dare to antagonize me, and so I can have my way up to a certain point.

  35. In order not to antagonize Paul, Zita was now particularly nice to him.

  36. Balcom had been quick to realize that it would not further his plans if he continued to antagonize this high-spirited girl.

  37. Agatha gently, fearing to antagonize her mistress in her present mood.

  38. Edme had no intention of imparting her plan to La Liberte, yet she did not wish to antagonize her by refusing to confide in her.

  39. We can not afford to antagonize the churches.

  40. Mrs. Shattuck thought the church was coming around to a belief in woman suffrage and it would be a mistake to antagonize it.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antagonize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggravate; alienate; antagonize; battle; breast; buck; buffet; clash; collide; combat; compete; conflict; confute; contend; contest; contradict; counter; counteract; countervail; cross; embitter; envenom; fight; infuriate; interfere; madden; oppose; oppugn; provoke; resist; rival; stem; vie