Example sentences for: nemesis

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

  • They're indignant that we allowed Russia, our old nemesis and new deadbeat debtor, to water down our terms for ending the war and sneak its troops into Kosovo ahead of us.

  • Until his campaign moved into gear, Nixon's popularity, like Clinton's until recently, was low--stuck at the "nemesis figure of 43 percent," as Theodore White recounted in The Making of the President, 1972 . But, again like Clinton, Nixon was fortunate in the choice of his opponent.

  • Doesseker was exposed--his nemesis was another Holocaust memoirist, bitter at his lack of comparable success--he traveled around the world giving seminars on the memory-recovering techniques that led to his "discovery" that he was a Holocaust survivor.

  • Even though the panel was carefully balanced between pro- and anti-gambling leaders, it was supposed to be Vegas' nemesis.

  • Larry Ellison, Gates' nemesis at Oracle, has a sizable minority stake in his company.


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