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Example sentences for: adversary

How can you use “adversary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Mr. Alinksy instructs his readers to pick an issue, find an adversary and make it personal.
Thus, Ralph Olmsted Williams often engaged Hall in the pages of the Dial and of Modern Language Notes; these exchanges Williams published in Some Questions of Good English (1897), recognizing that with such an adversary as Dr. Hall it was difficult to claim victory even when claiming the benefit of the last word.
Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Indeed, the subtext of The Rules is resentment toward men: As the authors put it in their inimitable fashion, "[T]he man is the adversary (if he's someone you really like)."
When an adversary has to ask for clarification, the jargon-wielder has won a point.