How to Use enemy in a Sentence

enemy

noun

• He made a lot of enemies during the course of his career.
• Tradition is the enemy of progress.
• But his plans are soon foiled when an enemy from his past intervenes.
  — Katie Reul, Variety, 28 Feb. 2023
• Heat is the enemy of both performance and battery health.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 8 Feb. 2023
• Apathy is the greatest enemy of all people in the arts.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
• Chill the dough to cool the butter — warm butter is the enemy of flakes — and to give yourself a moment of self-care.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• The cast here is most believable as young people—enemies or not—who stay up all night and then fall asleep in a pile, like puppies in long grass.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
• At the end of the day, nothing is more patriotic than sharing a common enemy.
  — Paola Ramos, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
• Affordable housing is a problem but Amazon is not the enemy.
  — Jane Carr, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• This gives Ukrainian soldiers encountering the enemy in urban areas a safer way to look around corners and over walls.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Anger could not have been more palpable among Somalis, who could not understand how their would-be saviors had become a new enemy.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2023
• Each question is associated with an enemy and one must answer correctly to defeat the combatant and advance in rank.
  — Monica Brich, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
• However, the big issue is that Zelda, for all her echo conjuring, can’t really defend herself against enemies on her own.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• The message coming through the news media appears to be neutral, thus believable, whereas the direct appeal from an enemy is unbelievable.
  — Jeff Bradford, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The Mandalorian season 3 premiere found Mando and Grogu reuniting with an old friend — or is that an old enemy?
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• Zegler is competent as Juliet, more like a teenager in a sitcom who has to decide what to wear on a date to the malt shop than a girl who has accidently fallen in love with her father’s enemy.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
• And this is how unwanted immigrants have been depicted through American history: as enemies of God.
  — Yii-Jan Lin, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
• In fact, thicker socks tend to make your feet sweat more — and that perspiration quickly becomes your worst enemy by causing friction that leads to blisters and turning your feet icy cold in lower temperatures.
  — Todd Plummer, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
• The true enemies, in his world, are the culture warriors of the present.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
• The two fight off enemies who try and fail to prevent them from getting to the vault.
  — Vulture, 8 July 2023
• But the greatest enemy of ECPR — of the brain, really — is the clock.
  — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Biden’s mouth also turned out to be his worst enemy at the time.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
• The crew burned the remains of the warship to make sure its guns did not fall into enemy hands.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
• That enemy may not be real, but the danger of those lies is.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• In Jack's mind, even the slightest change to his daily routine is the enemy.
  — Mike Wagner, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2023
• But the difference is colossal, at times more than 10 times less than that of the enemy.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• And while Fury is trying to stop Gravik’s rebels in the show, Jackson emphasizes that the Skrulls are not the enemy.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• Launch Quickly, Then Improve Don't let great be the enemy of good!
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• The aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed into the water of Malakal Harbor.
  — Sara Smart, CNN, 8 July 2023
• The Marines will use the NSM to keep enemy navies at bay and expanding their zone of control around small islands.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024