How to Use bad guy in a Sentence
bad guy
noun
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The bad guy becomes the good guy and gets the girl in the end.
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Robert Philpot,
star-telegram,
17 May 2018
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And most of the time his sense of who the bad guy was proved spot on.
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Paul Letersky,
Time,
22 July 2021
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Dom's kind of set up as the bad guy in that first film.
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Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
25 June 2021
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There are a lot of crazies in the city and a lot of bad guys.
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Carl Nolte,
SFChronicle.com,
11 Jan. 2020
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If the bad guys are trying to sack you, just give ’em the ball.
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Scott Ostler,
SFChronicle.com,
17 Aug. 2019
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The main thing is this: There doesn’t have to be a bad guy and a good guy here.
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oregonlive,
30 Sep. 2021
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But the big one to think about is this: Who are the real bad guys here?
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Alex Zaragoza,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2023
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This is a story in which all the parts are played by bad guys.
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Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2023
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Just have Tom Cruise as the bad guy in space that you guys have to go stop.
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Derek Lawrence,
EW.com,
7 May 2021
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Who's the bad guy in all this? Depends on your point of view.
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CBS News,
20 Mar. 2018
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It was paid for with a grant, and with bad guy's money.
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John Tufts,
The Indianapolis Star,
1 Sep. 2023
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The squire, the son of a land owner, turns out to be the bad guy in the book, taking more and more.
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Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 2019
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My first job is hold off the bad guys, keep them off the keeper.
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Terry Monahan,
Pomerado News,
10 Jan. 2018
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For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
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The Economist,
4 July 2019
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The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
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Lukas Mikelionis,
Fox News,
4 June 2018
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One thing that’s cool about it is there’s no bad guy in this one.
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Chris Smith,
BGR,
25 Nov. 2022
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Mom picks off bad guys in the desert with her sniper rifle.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2024
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The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun!
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Alex Siquig,
GQ,
1 Mar. 2018
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Because McCain is the bad guy in this play -- and Trump is the good guy.
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
14 May 2018
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The bad guys will be the players who keep bringing it up.
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Mike Finger,
ExpressNews.com,
18 Feb. 2020
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There’d be music and some acting and a bad guy, and a dance.
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Allison Stewart,
chicagotribune.com,
7 June 2018
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And that the bad guy had blue eyes, was blonde and spoke perfect English.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
8 Dec. 2022
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The hardest thing to teach our kids is that no one’s just a good guy or a bad guy.
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Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Dec. 2024
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Think of them as the Empire in the Star Wars films, where the bad guys are 7-1 so far, and that one loss is iffy.
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Roy Bragg,
San Antonio Express-News,
1 Feb. 2018
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And the story had a bad guy that the public was already primed to hate.
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Gabriel Popkin,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2020
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Maybe the bad guy changes, but this guy is doing the same thing the same way, almost with the same words!
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Jordan Reyes,
Chicago Reader,
12 Jan. 2018
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So maybe just remember who the bad guy is here (ie, the virus).
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Courtney Shea,
refinery29.com,
22 May 2020
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Plus, the bad guy got caught and was given a hefty sentence.
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Rachel Monroe,
The Atlantic,
16 July 2019
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Good guys and bad guys have been using trackers in stories for a long time.
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Jason Ogaard,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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When that happens, that’s when bad guys stop being the cautionary tales that they were intended to be.
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Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
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