Example sentences for: foes

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

  • Veteran Soviet-era director Sergei Bodrov transposes a Tolstoy short story about Russian soldiers held by Muslim foes to present-day Chechnya.

  • It's not really surprising that when it finally did, its foes realized they could take a mile.

  • In yesterday's dispatch, gambling's foes learn the folly of having brought their anti-sin crusade to an adult Disneyland.

  • It is tempting, when presented with any list of unattractive qualities--and let's assume copious drooling is unattractive--to apply it willy-nilly to our ideological foes.

  • Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) lays out the president's winning strategy: "Deny" the allegation that Monica Lewinsky fellated him; "delay" the nation's judgment of the crisis; and "attack" his foes, mostly special prosecutor Kenneth Starr but also the alleged "right-wing conspiracy," the press, and Lewinsky herself.


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