Enemy means: Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. Related words include rival or people. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Enemy in practice.
Enemy in a sentence
Enemy meaning
- Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
- A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
- Something harmful or threatening to another
Synonyms of Enemy
Example sentences (20)
The analyst emphasized the Machiavellian principle, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," in diplomatic strategies.
He would compile enemy speeches, films, newsreels, newspaper articles, with a list of the enemy's hostile actions.
After hitting one enemy on their return trip every subsequent enemy hit will suffer a critical hit (3.5x damage).
Maanpetos consists in joining enemy armed forces, making war against Finland, or serving or collaborating with the enemy.
If an enemy fleet ran, then the Invincibles would use their speed to pursue, and their guns to damage or slow enemy ships.
Some of the enemy began to fight again and some Sikh warriors were annoyed by Bhai Kanhaiya as he was helping their enemy.
Coups may include stealing horses unseen, touching a living enemy, or stealing a gun from an enemy’s grasp.
In battle, they were used to disrupt and outflank enemy infantry formations and to fight off enemy cavalry.
Foot mobile, their frontline mission is to infiltrate or flank enemy lines to envelop or mount rear attacks on enemy forces.
In November, China issued a stern warning to Australia basically saying “if you treat us as an enemy, we will be your enemy”.
It also stands to reason that anyone who sympathizes with the enemy or gives aid or comfort to said enemy is likewise guilty.
Fear, the Pope explained, is always the enemy of goodness, because it is the enemy of love and peace.
Without identifying the enemy, he said he was standing guard watching all that enemy’s machinations.
Someone probably wants to grab the Enemy Scanner, which displays rough enemy positions on its screen—even through doors and walls.
If there are any enemy discs on the board, a player must make contact, directly or indirectly, with an enemy disc during the shot.
These techniques allow us to hit the enemy without hitting civilians, despite the fact that the enemy wants us to hit their civilians.
Care must be taken to differentiate innocent civilians who often hide and support the enemy from the non-uniformed armed enemy forces.
Most wars had other causes but they reinforced mercantilism by clearly defining the enemy, and justified damage to the enemy's economy.
Use enemy ahead to share target designation: In the text chat there's an "enemy ahead" option.
In the latter event, he both takes the side of the enemy and gives the enemy aid and comfort.
Phrases with enemy
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Common combinations with enemy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the enemy 98×
- an enemy 48×
- enemy and 18×
- enemy of 17×
- enemy lines 10×
- enemy is 7×
- my enemy 7×
- of enemy 7×
- enemy forces 6×
- enemy the 6×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word enemy. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.