He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.    From LearnThat.org.  [Edmund Burke (1729-1797)]

When bending the elbow the triceps are the antagonist.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

But their main antagonist is the house they are building.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 April 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

About halfway through (when the main antagonist is killed) every single page was a stop-or-keep-going decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [SF Tidbits for 11/3/07] Reference

Is it ever okay for the narrator to behave this way – where the antagonist is the protagonist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Voice Q&A: Evil Narrators and Guy Talk] Reference

But a novel has more depth and dimension when the antagonist is also seen as human by the reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Creating the Care Factor] Reference

And the second lies with the main antagonist, Nero.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Star Trek (Richard’s Take) « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more] Reference

A protagonist without an antagonist is only half a story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing: The Task of the Antagonist « Colleen Anderson] Reference

Driving the plot is the story line of the main antagonist, "Big" Jim Rennie.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Under the Dome by Stephen King] Reference

The antagonist is somewhat absent when he should be raining down hard on our hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Buzz: Neveldine/Taylor’s Game | /Film] Reference

Last week saw the return of Mr. Maliki's long-term antagonist, the anti-American cleric.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The main antagonist, the witch-queen, ends up fizzling out rather than being a true threat.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Stardust by Neil Gaiman] Reference

The protagonist plans to kill the rogues with the help of the girl once the antagonist is defeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum] Reference

A hero without a good supporting cast, a good setting, and a good antagonist is really just a sidekick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

That is why I prefer to use the word antagonist to describe the character who clashes against the protagonist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Minutes, That's It] Reference

The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Occasionally I have had my doubts about Morgaine being Trinity's main antagonist (as opposed to, say, Circe).    From Wordnik.com.  [Annotations for Trinity issue #49 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

A good antagonist is exactly that, an equal opponent for the hero in strength, cleverness, and characterization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissecting the Devil «] Reference

If that antagonist is based on real-life people that have bullied the author, that request is going to go down like a ton of bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » “How can I make a character with mental disorders work?”] Reference

I watched Hannibal for the first time, a few nights ago and McConnell kinda reminds me of Mason Verger, main antagonist of the movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Dodd rips GOP obstruction on financial reform: ‘Explain’ to Americans ‘why the status quo is in their interest.’] Reference

The absence of a well-defined antagonist translates to a story that seems to lack narrative drive - it meanders as much as David does.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Jumper and Griffin's Story by Steven Gould] Reference

Basically, the antagonist was a naturally occurring phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

Helper, our antagonist is our, 411. our, he amid the flood, 770.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

Then they clinched, and, although his antagonist was the heavier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven Back to Eden] Reference

The struggle was as real as though my antagonist was another man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Spiritualism] Reference

How much more different would the book be if the antagonist were a party clown?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About] Reference

The protagonist is a right SOB and the antagonist is a good and humane doppelganger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest at SF Novelists] Reference

They drew back at a mutual spasm, and Montaiglon saw that his antagonist was the Baron of Doom!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

It's one of those things where a lot of times finding the antagonist is the most difficult thing.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Though his antagonist was a man, he found that the boy was powerful, and not to be mastered as easily as he anticipated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune] Reference

He supposed, wrongly, that his antagonist was a hundred kilometres away, and he adjusted his remarks and voice accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916] Reference

The objective of the antagonist is the motor or the fuel-tank, the vital parts of the machine, as much as the aviator seated within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

His antagonist was a woman; and he had already had in his life so many unpleasant scenes with women that this was no new experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man] Reference

My antagonist was a tall lank man of pinched ascetic face and dark complexion, with clothes brushed to shininess, and he belonged to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference

He probably represents a Persian, and appears to have received a wound from his antagonist, which is causing him to sink to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Phoenicia] Reference