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 getting caught up in hype is the enemy of good investing.
    Kjartan Rist, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Tesla, longtime darling of tech media, is now the enemy.
    Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Moisture is the enemy here, so avoid soaking your skillet in the sink and never put it in the dishwasher.
    Julie Harans, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Donald Trump is going to walk in the Oval Office with an enemies list.
    CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • When emotions run high during election seasons, investors can become their own worst enemies, veering off course from their long-term goals.
    John Buckingham, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Tanks are heavier and more powerful than infantry fighting vehicles, and they’re meant to engage other tanks and break through enemy lines.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The Colorado congresswoman referenced a biblical verse calling for the death of an enemy.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Rigidity and perfectionism are often the enemy to building an exercise habit.
    Kelyn Soong, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2023
  • This experience only reinforced the narrative I'd been taught: Arabs were the enemy.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • The worst enemy of the Cuban fish is a species introduced for food in 1999 that has since conquered all of mainland Cuba and the Isle of Youth.
    Discover Magazine, 20 June 2024
  • Movies and television have always been the best of enemies.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Here are some steps that worked for me: Inertia is your enemy.
    Craig Idlebrook, STAT, 5 Jan. 2024

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