How to Use archrival in a Sentence

archrival

noun
  • The prospect of James playing for the Lakers while owning part of their archrival would also be untenable.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 July 2024
  • If a man’s archrival will miss him that much, how should the rest of us feel?
    Andrew Das James Hill, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Maddie Rooney made 29 saves for the win against their archrival.
    Teresa M. Walker, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • So, where does all this put the new Raptor compared to its archrival?
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The two archrivals shook hands and reconciled this month.
    Jina Moore, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Travis is back in the lineup, and the Shamrocks seem eager for a rematch with their archrival.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2022
  • It’s less than a dozen miles from the global headquarters of Nike, its archrival.
    Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Finland erased a three-goal deficit to beat Sweden 4-3 in overtime and move ahead of its archrival in the standings.
    Stephen Whyno, chicagotribune.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • At the same time, the car often described as the Accord's archrival, the Toyota Camry, is up 13.7 percent for the year.
    Mark Phelan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Al-Moallem said Israel is making false claims to try and pressure Iran, its archrival.
    Washington Post, 2 June 2018
  • Streaming, though, may be departing the role of archrival.
    Jake Coyle, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The archrivals don't have any remaining head-to-head games scheduled, and the Yankees won the season series 11–8.
    Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • That distinction belongs — barely — to Green Bay's archrival to the south.
    Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • But what if the nightmare scenario comes true and Contreras winds up signing with the Cubs’ archrival?
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The Reds captured a 2-0 home win over archrivals Everton on Monday to put an end to a four-match winless run.
    Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Joe Haden has agreed to terms on a three-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland's archrival, according to profootballtalk.com.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • To this day, my biggest thrill in sports was scoring the winning goal against our high school archrival Walpole in a 1-0 victory.
    Bill Dow, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2020
  • The Wolfpack would love to add to their archrival’s troubles, though North Carolina State has issues of its own.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2020
  • For the first time since 2012, the country’s richest club Bayern Munich looks set to lose out to archrival Borussia Dortmund.
    David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
  • Then Donald pulled on a curly black wig to pose as his archrival McIlroy, a perennial media darling with the gift of gab.
    Harry Hurt, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2014
  • The archrivals each had been undefeated heading into the game – sorry, The Game.
    John Affleck, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Both soon established themselves as the Mustang’s archrivals, on the street and in motorsport.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Callaghan’s first official game as coach of the United States will be against his archrival, Mexico.
    Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • The kind of day when those two shutout losses to the Dodgers over the weekend fade from memory, and the buzz from the two earlier 1-0 victories over the archrival are viewed as the true sign of things to come.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
  • What to know: Tennessee looks to reverse a whole lot of recent history and all but eliminate its archrival from the SEC race in the process.
    USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Notre Dame beat all-time archrival Assumption for the first time in the state tournament since 1994, and only the second time in school history in a best-of-five match.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The host Explorers advanced Monday with a 2-1 triumph over archrival and No.
    Rick O'Brien, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • The Louisville guards talked about their embarrassment after a 90-61 rout at the hands of archrival Kentucky earlier that day.
    Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Arkansas is the home state of Amazon’s archrival, Walmart.
    Nick Wingfield, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
  • And mere hours later, Netflix whet fans’ appetite with a particularly savory announcement: Chestnut is slated to face off against his archrival, Takeru Kobayashi, for the first time since 2009.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 13 June 2024

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