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.
• The true enemies, in his world, are the culture warriors of the present.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
• Many vow to persist through the hardships and not give in to the enemy.
  — Andrew E. Kramer Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• 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
• In this way, the person before us is no longer an enemy at all.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 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 enemy wore no uniform -- could be a barber by day and a Viet Cong by night.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
• 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
• Donald Trump is going to walk in the Oval Office with an enemies list.
  — CBS News, 3 Nov. 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
• Well, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer, right?
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
• So the games go on, with all eyes on Gi-hun and an accompaniment of fellow contestants, allies and enemies alike.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
• By using radio signals to identify enemy planes in the dark skies, British pilots quickly began downing Luftwaffe bombers and took back control of its airspace.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025