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enemy - use in sentences
Converse of object
- defeat: This passage, however, tells us that he is also a defeated enemy.
- destroy: When you destroy an enemy your score will go up.
- kill: He sees a bomb blast as it kills the enemy.
Adjective modifier
- deadly: Complacency, satisfaction with yourself, is your soul's most deadly enemy.
- bitter: What elegies can be compared with the pathos of David's lament over Jonathan and his bitter enemy Saul?
- bad: Indeed the Grand Lodge of Ireland is its own worst enemy.
Modifies a noun
- combatant: They are considered enemy combatants, according to a new definition introduced by the American administration.
- aircraft: The air defenses fail to destroy a single enemy aircraft.
- territory: Well, here we are, deep, deep in enemy territory.
- trench: The enemy trench was known as " Nash Alley " .
- troop: At around 10am on June 7th, they were engaged in bitter fighting with enemy troops.
- fighter: The marines know there is little hope of survival even when enemy fighters fail to open fire.
Noun used with modifier
- arch: Here was her precious son being whisked out of her protective bosom into an unknown arch enemy... .
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