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.
• It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2022
• The enemy wore no uniform -- could be a barber by day and a Viet Cong by night.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
• Our enemies are delighted that their years-long efforts to worsen our divisions have worked so well.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
• The scarcity of essentials means players have to weigh up the risk and reward of every engagement with an enemy.
  — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
• Mark Simon, but Muncie quickly becomes a prime suspect for police — and a prime target for the dead man’s enemies to be framed for his murder.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2024
• In the early part of his reign, despite family ties Nicolas thought of England as Russia’s sworn enemy.
  — Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• There is the pride in seeing her father take on this role, and nothing gives Beth more joy than really socking it to the enemy, and her father doing this is going to do that.
  — William Earl, Variety, 13 Nov. 2022
• The climactic showdown There are a number of enemies invested in Muncie’s downfall.
  — Barry Levitt, TIME, 28 Nov. 2024
• The next several months—known by historians as rasputitsa, or disagreeable travel—have been the great enemy of Eurasian armies for centuries.
  — Mark T. Kimmitt, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Those blasts are believed to be the work of resistance fighters, also known as partisans, or Ukrainian special forces working behind enemy lines.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• This dual nature of the telescope dates back to its inception; after inventing his, Galileo wrote to the ruler of Venice about its ability to spy enemy ships.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But, of course, to sign up for the draft, to pull the trigger, these too come with consequences not only for the enemy but for the self.
  — David Perry, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• The solution is to wait to go full throttle, though waiting is the enemy of lap times.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 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
• At the end of the war, Lore’s father, who had been interned as a German enemy alien early in the war, died of a stroke in England.
  — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• Everybody's trying to save their own lives and fight against the enemy using all the effort, all the forces.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024