Example sentences for: foe

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

  • Finally, Sparta, with naval help from former foe Persia, blockaded what was then the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles Strait), thus cutting off Athens from its crucial supply of grain.

  • Thus the Ku Klux Klan wore the vestments of the Catholics they despised, and the John Birch Society organized itself in secret cells and front groups modeled on the Communist foe.

  • HIV remains a stealthy foe: It can take refuge in body tissues (as opposed to blood), where the drugs have a harder time reaching.

  • From the safety of a TV studio, Donaldson's ready to have (someone else) pay any price, face any foe.

  • John Weaver, his national political director, alerted him that the audience waiting inside the aircraft hangar might include Betsy DeVos, the chairman of the state party, who happens to be married to the head of the Amway Corp., and who also happens to be a committed foe of campaign finance reform.


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