How to Use nemesis in a Sentence

nemesis

noun

• He will be playing his old nemesis for the championship.
• Batman is the Joker's main nemesis and always foils his wicked plots.
• This was the first time the two nemeses have faced off in 15 years.
  — Wayne Sterling, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• Right out of the gates, the culinary nemeses were well-matched.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Sep. 2024
• The Dodgers’ biggest nemesis with a bat in his hands is Aaron Judge.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
• In the ring, somebody must play the good guy and somebody must play their nemesis, the heel.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2024
• Those rows are full today as the case's key witness — and a Trump nemesis — is called to the stand.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 13 May 2024
• The Ravens wanted to win and push their nemesis out of the playoff race, but that was secondary.
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2024
• Or topline salaries: Chris Evans plays Gosling’s nemesis.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• Kane, a longtime Knights nemesis dating to his days with the San Jose Sharks, has been at the center of the bad blood.
  — Mark Anderson, ajc, 11 May 2023
• Tea scale is a nemesis that likely arrived with the first camellias in the 1700s.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Dec. 2021
• But in this case, Putin has conjured up his own nemesis.
  — Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2023
• Now Ahab inhales deeply, scenting in the salt air the presence of his nemesis.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• Yayo and his team haven’t backed down from hating their nemesis along with the Murder Inc. clique.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 26 July 2024
• Putin, for his part, for years refused to utter the name of his nemesis in public.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• And if rust stains are your nemesis, rust removers will come to your rescue!
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2023
• But her mask-wearing nemesis wouldn’t miss a chance to expand his kill zone.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 16 Dec. 2022
• And their nemesis, Dworsky, has been following it for decades.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
• LEGO Joker wrecks the world as a lovelorn statement to his jilted nemesis.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• The two groups face off, and one by one, Team Flash helps defeat some of Barry’s biggest nemeses.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• But the Browns’ defense, which should be almost at full-strength by then, might be too much for the Browns’ nemesis to handle.
  — cleveland, 26 Dec. 2021
• Leroy-Beaulieu, who has some of the best lines in the show, said she’s learned about herself while playing Sylvie Grateau, Emily’s nemesis.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• Brink stayed out of foul trouble, her nemesis, for three-plus quarters.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• And then step down and help your nemesis step up and refute your argument.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
• The other is his nemesis, the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who now wants to dominate the world.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2022
• But a broken right foot, and the follow-up surgery, has been his real nemesis in recent years.
  — Hillard Grossman, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2022
• Her main nemesis was Groucho, who would stop at nothing to get a laugh at her expense.
  — Jeanine Basinger, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• The horse-wrangling, left-handed nemesis was back on the mound at Dodger Stadium.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• Though brief, the scene leaves no doubt that Keoghan is playing Batman’s greatest nemesis, The Joker.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 3 Mar. 2022
• Gru, Lucy and their girls welcome a new member to the family – Gru Jr. – who is intent on tormenting his dad, as a new nemesis shows up and forces the family to go on the run.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024