Example sentences for: enmity

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

  • What I mean is that by confronting this woman with something that is really none of your business, you run the risk of incurring her enmity and making yourself a target for social unpleasantness.

  • 4) It's amazing that they've relaxed their enmity after showing each other their nuclear weapons.

  • The papers' consensus on the Weld pull-out is that he never had much of a chance, that President Clinton's support for him once the Jesse Helms problem presented itself was lukewarm at best, and that the source of Helms's enmity was never completely clear.

  • Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.

  • He won the eternal enmity of British lefties, but he was right: The unions were lazy and intransigent.


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