How to Use archenemy in a Sentence

archenemy

noun

• The country went to war with its archenemy.
• The two politicians were archenemies.
• The archenemy of the papermaker is lignin, which is a complex polymer found in the cell walls of most plants.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2014
• Akesson said that the bigger neighbor across the Baltic is, and always has been, Sweden’s archenemy.
  — Amanda Billner, Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Here comes the San Diego Padres – the archenemy of baseball tradition.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
• Young was able to get off only one shot in that stretch, to the delight of a Garden crowd that had booed every mistake of their new archenemy.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2021
• The strikes further burst into the open what’s been a long shadow war between Israel and its archenemy Iran.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• Even as big an artist as Swift wouldn’t have been able to make that ask without her future archenemy, the Big Machine label, backing her at the time.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
• Tehran is seeking to set up military bases in Syria that will extend its reach across the region, right up to the doorstep of archenemy Israel.
  — Nazih Osseiran, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• But the road to thawing relations with its archenemy, South Korea, was rocky.
  — Gerry Mullany, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Portune, an archenemy of silence, clammed up when PX asked him about running.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 13 May 2017
• Rough and tumble, tenacious and pernicious: weeds are the archenemy of the gardener’s law and order.
  — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2016
• Israel has a big stake in Azerbaijan, which serves as a critical source of oil and is a staunch ally against Israel’s archenemy Iran.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
• Like many an archenemy of the bourgeoisie, Jünger came from a thoroughly bourgeois background.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• But the country’s steps away from its obligations under the accord have alarmed its archenemy Israel and world powers.
  — Josef Federman, ajc, 20 Feb. 2022
• Life-size cutouts of langur monkeys have been scattered among the half a million decorative plants placed across the city with the aim of scaring away their archenemy, rhesus monkeys that plague parts of the city.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• India also fears a return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, which would work with India’s archenemy, the nuclear-armed Pakistan.
  — Tracy Wilkinson Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021
• After all, what would bother the president more than his archenemy in late-night taking home an award that Trump never managed to win himself?
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 27 June 2017
• Israel has long complained about the involvement of archenemy Iran, and Iranian proxy Hezbollah, in the Syria war.
  — Aron Heller, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• Microsoft, Google’s archenemy, struck a deal with OpenAI for access to its tech and began putting it into its products.
  — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• Qatar has rather cozy relations with Iran, the Saudi kingdom's archenemy.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• Ahead of his departure, Netanyahu said Monday that archenemy Iran would top his agenda and voiced optimism for the visit.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2018
• Iran’s theocracy is a main sponsor of Hamas in its fight against Israel, Tehran’s regional archenemy.
  — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Houthis, who are aligned with Saudi archenemy Iran, dismissed the proposal as containing nothing new.
  — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021
• Israel accuses its archenemy Iran of funding some of the militant groups involved in the fighting.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
• Meeting with the president of the United States, his country’s archenemy, is also a different ballgame for Kim.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
• With archenemy Pakistan lying between its borders and those of Afghanistan, India has no other way to directly move supplies to the country.
  — Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• Some of the plot will include her dealing with bullies, an archenemy, friends and family, with the latter based on personalities of some of his relatives.
  — Jeremy Deputat, Pomerado News, 5 June 2019
• Israel is mired in a bloody round of violence with Palestinians and archenemy Iran is blazing ahead with its nuclear program.
  — Tia Goldenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2023
• For its part, Israel is wary of Iran's growing influence in Syria, bringing its archenemy closer to its borders.
  — Nataliya Vasilyeva, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024