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Example sentences for "villain"

Lexicographically close words:
villa; village; villager; villagers; villages; villainage; villaine; villaines; villainies; villainous
  1. He said, "It is intended for to lacerate and flay The neck of that unmitigated villain PETER GRAY!

  2. He knew the exact hour when the villain would make his appearance and he waited patiently for the time to come.

  3. She was not possessed of enough depth of character to see how vastly superior was the man before her to the handsome, unscrupulous villain who was to bear her company.

  4. That villain again," he said, "where is he now?

  5. The woman who cast him off for that hollow headed villain is a fit subject for the lunatic asylum, and her companion a knave of the deepest dye.

  6. There is a skeleton in our home that can never be removed, a disgrace which can never be blotted out, and I have sworn to have revenge on the villain who threw the dark shadow over our lives.

  7. With cautious step Irene glided down the softly carpeted stairs, and turned the lock in the great heavy door; then returned to her room to wait for the villain who was to take her husband's money, and perhaps his life.

  8. She will soon be left alone again, for that villain will go in search of another weak-minded victim.

  9. Whether that was true or not, he was undoubtedly the most subtle villain that ever sold scabby sheep or slipped a flag-stone into a sack of bacon.

  10. This villain became at once the cynosure of every eye, and stood confessed the vilest of the vile.

  11. How happy the villain would be if he knew where he could find us in hidin'!

  12. Jerry thinks we might catch him again, by going at once to his home," I said, impatient to make the attempt or set sail, for I was not easy in mind at lying there while the villain was free.

  13. Commodore Barney is not the man Darius has pictured him, if he allows such a villain to escape.

  14. In event of failure, however, and I was positive he would fail, the villain might wander anywhere while working off his disappointment, therefore it stood us in hand to be exceeding cautious.

  15. Now the villain is tryin' to get a glimpse of the sailor in order to crow over him!

  16. That villain would ride over us roughshod.

  17. I shall not rest until that villain is brought to justice.

  18. Religion stood in their way, and the wretch Marat, as well as the steady villain Weishaupt, saw that they could not proceed till they had eradicated all sentiments of the moral government of the universe.

  19. Also this plundering villain had so invested part of their money, in their own name by forgeries, as to make them liable for large sums which they had not the means of paying.

  20. I think," said his lordship, "that thou art the greatest villain in England.

  21. I knew not," he murmured, "that the villain was dead.

  22. Know, then, that of all the people whom the conduct of the villain Christopher March with regard to your affairs injured, but two are left alive.

  23. Why, there was not only the Doctor, but his man Roger, the villain with the pale face, the scarred cheeks, and the red nose.

  24. Lord Breaker of Promises, my Lord Trampler of Dependents, my Lord Villain and Rogue, how likes your lordship that your son should marry my niece?

  25. He, too, was a little man, by name Henriques, and in looks the most atrocious villain I have ever clapped eyes on.

  26. I discussed the matter with Mr Wardlaw, who said, 'I believe the old villain has got some sort of black secret, and the natives know it, and have got a pull on him.

  27. When they would glide to that smooth eddy-space, Then bid me leap and join them in the place; And at my groans each little villain sprite Enjoy'd my pains and vanish'd in delight.

  28. The plot demands, observe, that the villain shall not relent.

  29. And twenty years afterwards, when the villain was dead, the hero still resolutely refused to clear his own character, lest the villain's widow should learn the truth about her wholly unlamented husband.

  30. Words cannot express our unconcern as to what passes between the heroine and the villain on board the yacht--nay, more, our gratitude for being spared that painful and threadbare scene of recrimination.

  31. In due course a situation of great intensity was reached, wherein the villain produced a pistol and fired at the heroine, who fainted.

  32. But it soon became known abroad that the villain Sainte Croix's abominable art had been handed down to certain successors.

  33. Are you speaking of the villain Cardillac's accomplice, Mademoiselle?

  34. The villain I allude to is of course that Markham," continued the Resurrection Man.

  35. Bill, who approved of the horrible scheme, but shuddered at the cruelty of it, villain as he was.

  36. You harbour a villain in your house; and that villain is now before you.

  37. Yes--he was the villain who has plundered us.

  38. You see before you a powerless female, who was weak enough to bestow her hand upon a villain--a villain that has immured her, by the aid of another villain of even a deeper dye than himself, in this horrible vault!

  39. And if you had been served by a villain as I was," returned the Traveller, brutally, "you would long for the time to come to settle up accounts with him.

  40. Yet, in truth, I did but now smell a savour as of hell; and there was a raven here, a black villain of a bird that croaked 'Abracadabra to the letter.

  41. Your complete villain is no frequent prodigy, being more the denizen of the regions of romance than of the common, trafficking, trivial world.

  42. Would you believe it, boys, all the time I've known the villain it never occurred to him to ask me?

  43. All is drawn on my map as we see it here before us; and this should be the fine dwelling of that great villain Holmes, now used as a tavern by Benjamin Hays.

  44. And you would have let me give my order and include that villain in it!

  45. But the villain Martius shall not escape.

  46. But this treacherous villain is a stout man at arms, and I would not willingly risk thy life, my brave soldier.

  47. And if so, was it not probable that such a dissembling villain had set it on foot to conceal some new plan of treachery--perhaps to seduce Isabelle out of the protection of the worthy Bishop?

  48. The villain hath trained us all hither by false and treacherous representations, that he might put us into the hands of the Duke of Burgundy without defence.

  49. Singly, I might cajole or defy them; but united, united--and with the discontent and treachery of that villain Saint Paul!

  50. For," said the King, "I will see the villain once more, just to observe how he bears himself towards the master whom he has led into the toils.

  51. Your bungling villain has no chance nowadays; to succeed a criminal must be an artist, a scientist even, and he does not fall into the error of accusing himself by excusing himself.

  52. That the villain had escaped justice seemed to rankle in his mind, and he was contemptuous of the intelligence of Scotland Yard.

  53. He was simple and straightforward, and when a villain is that a detective is practically helpless.

  54. The dirty villain would have us hanged at the nearest gallows for all his buttery words.

  55. Mother," he said, abruptly, "I have behaved like a villain and a coward.

  56. He kissed her hands, saying to himself that he was the greatest coward and the greatest villain that ever stood on earth.

  57. She sang gaily: "Oh, Love has been a villain Since the days of Troy and Helen, When he caused the death of Paris And of many, many more!

  58. Meramble, swimming along behind, happened to hear that laugh, and he gnashed his teeth as if he were the villain of a melodrama.

  59. That you left the noble villain without public disgrace.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "villain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    actor; actress; antagonist; bandit; bit; cast; character; criminal; crook; deceiver; delinquent; devil; enervated; feeder; felon; foil; gangster; heavy; hero; heroine; ingenue; juvenile; knave; lawbreaker; lead; limb; lines; lowlife; malefactor; mimic; mischief; miscreant; mummer; ogre; outlaw; pantomime; part; person; personage; piece; player; protagonist; rapscallion; rascal; reciter; reprobate; rogue; role; scalawag; scamp; scoundrel; shyster; side; sinner; sneak; soubrette; stroller; swindler; theatrical; thief; transgressor; villain; wretch; wrongdoer