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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