Example sentences for: adversary

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

  • Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas — corporate cash.

  • Thus, "the adversary system ...

  • 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.

  • Instead, "America is now spending $7 billion a year defending itself against backpack nuclear bombs, canisters of nerve gas and petri dishes of germ weapons planted in crowded cities by an as-yet-unknown adversary."

  • During the Cold War, intelligence agencies did not depend on seamless integration to track and count the thousands of military targets-such as tanks and missiles-fielded by the Soviet Union and other adversary states.


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