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.
• People think that film is in some ways the enemy of the word.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The true enemies, in his world, are the culture warriors of the present.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024
• The economics of the game are still often the worst enemy of the sport.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Nobody has the time to sit by the river and wait for the body of their enemy and its clone to float by.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 16 June 2022
• The two fight off enemies who try and fail to prevent them from getting to the vault.
  — Vulture, 8 July 2023
• Even the idea that there's no true name for the movie's enemy somehow works.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 4 June 2022
• But the greatest enemy of ECPR — of the brain, really — is the clock.
  — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• The rest of the women use their time to torch their absent enemy, Shanae.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• 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
• In other words, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good—every bit of progress helps.
  — Jeff Wilser, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
• Mark Schein sings from the back row, aware that many of the people in the other pews view him as their enemy.
  — Dan Gearino, ABC News, 29 July 2022
• 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
• Though only some egg white stuck to the pan at the end, oil splatters are an enemy to a clean kitchen.
  — Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2022
• But for many artists, the queen was more cipher than an enemy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• Westbrook stomped past the Detroit bench, chirping with the enemy and egging on the crowd.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 29 Dec. 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
• As soon as the gunfight starts, the audience knows who the enemies are.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 June 2025
• 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
• Our only enemy now was right in front of us, in line at the grocery store, in the next seat over at the movie theater.
  — oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The enemy is in Dusseldorf, while our army is in, say, Koblenz.
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Others say that they are relieved their enemies stopped pursuing them, but do not disavow the reality of the experience.
  — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
• Maybe now conservative pundits will face the truth and finally realize how their entertainment appetites are fed by their enemies.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 July 2025