How to Use aggressor in a Sentence

aggressor

noun
  • Each country accused the other of being the aggressor.
  • The logs say that the pit bull was the aggressor in the fight.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • In the first half, the Tigers (7-2, 5-1) were the aggressor on their home field in front of a loud crowd.
    — Chip Souza, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2022
  • That’s at the core of the tragedy of being an aggressor.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
  • At the top of Wednesday night's game plan: be the aggressor.
    — The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The man who had been driving the car appeared to have been the aggressor.
    — cleveland, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The Celtics were the aggressors early, scoring the game’s first 10 points.
    — Kyle Hightower, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The Arabs, usually, for the most part, are the aggressors.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This is atrocious, this is wrong, this is the aggressor, this is the one that needs to end this war.
    — Manu Raju, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The survivor speaks of three young aggressors and a villa by the sea.
    — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The deputies told the aggressor several times to stop, put his hands up and lie on the ground.
    — Pauline Repard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • Russia is the aggressor, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
    — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The moral fault for an attack such as this lies with the aggressor who opened fire.
    — Sam Bahour, Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • The Badgers were the aggressors early in that game and led by as many as 19 points.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The man who attacked the aggressor then leveled a blow to his head.
    — Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The caller said the aggressor, a Richfield man, had a gun.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 6 May 2020
  • The Storm remained the aggressor in the second quarter on the way to a 50-35 halftime lead.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The insurgents from the hard right of the GOP are usually the aggressors.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The aggressor’s rights do not take precedence over the rights of its victims.
    — Lawrence H. Summers, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
  • The Cavs came in wanting to play faster and be more physical with the younger Celtics, who were the aggressors in Games 1 and 2.
    — Tom Withers, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
  • Mays’ sister said the group that approached them were the aggressors.
    — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Houston was the aggressor in Game 2, as its role players stepped up in a big way on both ends of the floor.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • Romero is throwing much more down the stretch after Costa was the aggressor for the first round and a half.
    — Todd Martin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Anthony’s father told The New York Post that his son was not the aggressor in the fight.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025
  • And victims, of course, should not be held up as aggressors.
    — Shadi Bartsch, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Parents rushed to the aide of the injured athlete as the referee ushered the aggressor off the mat.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This case doesn’t present a clear aggressor or victim; a clear right or wrong.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 18 May 2021
  • But what if that armed teacher was in fact the aggressor instead of the savior?
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 28 Feb. 2018
  • When the victim refused, the aggressor shoved him to the floor of the station — ending with the victim’s head hitting the steel turnstile.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Brit, still processing, clocks that Kenya was angling for a full-on meltdown, trying to provoke her into playing the aggressor.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025

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