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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The other is his nemesis, the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who now wants to dominate the world.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 14 Apr. 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
• And then there was Megan Thee Stallion, who lit up an unnamed nemesis with a savage new diss track.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Another problem for Musk is his old nemesis, the shorts.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
• Chiefs coach Andy Reid improved to 21-3 coming off a bye by beating a franchise that has long been his nemesis.
  — Dave Skretta, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• Although the Duttons won a battle against their nemesis, an even greater war is brewing over the horizon.
  — Irene Richardson, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
• The pillowy-soft mask blocks out light (my dad’s biggest sleep nemesis) without adding pressure to his head.
  — Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Jan. 2023
• When tragedy strikes the small town again, Laurie is ready to face off against her longtime nemesis, who at 60-something years old is still racking up the kills.
  — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• His nemesis, the Duke of Wellington, occupied a slope across the fields, with a mere sixty-seven thousand troops.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• His nemesis is England’s Prince Henry (yes, a prince of England; no, not the prince getting married — stay with me).
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
• Hook’s crocodile nemesis, which has swallowed a clock, seems a scaly symbol of time.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Texas nemesis Oklahoma is also making the move, maintaining the Red River showdown (Oct. 12).
  — Asher Price, Axios, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024