Example Sentences

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“He antagonizes me on Twitter,” he said to a bystander, in an attempt to pass me off a second time.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2024

However, naltrexone, in both short- and long-acting forms, has the opposite pharmacology: it antagonizes mu receptors, occupying them without activating them.

From Scientific American • Sep. 13, 2023

The varying currency of these attributes is what draws the two women together, and also what antagonizes them, particularly once they come upon Faoud, a handsome young refugee, seemingly swept up onto the shore.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2017

Stoner’s implacable stand antagonizes Walker’s brilliant and charismatic thesis adviser, Hollis Lomax, whose “body is grotesquely misshapen” by a hump on his back.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2015

Nothing worries and antagonizes a female bear more than to have people between her and her brood.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson