How to Use foe in a Sentence

foe

noun

• Her ability was acknowledged by friend and foe alike.
• Many considered him a foe of democracy.
• Paul Rudd leads a ragtag group of Ghostbusters to fight the frozen foe.
  — Julia MacCary, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
• Not all of Allende’s problems came from the foes to his right.
  — Ariel Dorfman, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Well, the quickest way to get back in the ring is to start naming foes and picking fights.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023
• The Tigers will have their hands full in this game and this series with the National League foe.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
• And the guy has come across some dangerous foes over 44 seasons.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• But the biggest tease comes from a brief post-credits scene that introduces a new foe.
  — William Goodman, Men's Health, 2 Sep. 2023
• In this view, Iraq is at best an ambivalent partner and at worst a tacit foe.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• That result made Muchova 5-0 for her career against foes in the top three.
  — Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• How has the Arizona football team fared all-time against its new conference foes?
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Cowboys would be the foe in six of the 16 possible scenarios, but that's assuming a coin flip for each game.
  — Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• As the crowd erupts, an unsmiling Johnson greets his former foe.
  — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2023
• McCarthy’s far-right foes say their bomb-throwing ways are working.
  — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
• For that, the Avalanche gets the recent expansion team from Seattle while the Stars face a familiar foe where the fans still hate the Stars for leaving them 30 years ago.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
• The United States will have to get into attacking mode quicker against tougher World Cup foes.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• With the film's 30th anniversary here — and the sequel Hocus Pocus 2 available on Disney+, with a third film on the way — catch up with the Sanderson sisters and their friends and foes, then and now.
  — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
• The Heat State opens up more powerful moves and allows players to deal damage to blocking foes.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The group work to find their way home but are introduced to a mysterious new foe, Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors).
  — Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Maybe Ethan and Kittridge will have to put their differences aside to defeat a greater foe—or maybe Ethan will have to wage a battle on two fronts at once.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• But there are others on the hunt as well… dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2024
• Imagine a band of prehistoric humans, keeping watch through the night against predators and foes.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• In Budden, he still might be reminded of his former self—who is perhaps the most stubborn foe of them all.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
• Utah will enter the Big 12 next year, rejoining its longtime foe in the same conference.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Friend or foe? To operate a Dash Cart, shoppers must first introduce themselves to it via a phone app.
  — Christine Kilpatrick, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
• Your team can play a good game and still lose, perhaps to a foe that was simply better that day, or perhaps just plain luckier.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• While those two have never played each other, Medvedev and Alcaraz are familiar foes by this point.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Norse myths tell us that peace comes after the Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods, when the gods destroy their traditional foes but are also destroyed by them.
  — Salman Rushdie, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
• No, to be taken seriously, this defense must stand up to a more daunting foe.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Seen as a foe, anyone that stumbles into the Cube is caught within it and slowly dissolved unless the player is freed.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024