Words similar to opponent

Example sentences for: opponent

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

A three-man team scores points each time the ball hits the ground on the opponent’s court or if the ball is hit out of the court.
The five have not yet been publicly named, but one is said to be the son of a prominent Irish nationalist opponent of the recently brokered peace accord.
Usually D'Amato dictates a campaign, and his opponent desperately plays defense.
The weightiest British opponent of the war remains the Times ' op-ed columnist Simon Jenkins, who, writing from the United States Friday, said that "the misreading of Mr Milosevic by Nato deserves to rank with Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor in the annals of military incompetence."
Local developer Eugene Pfeifer III, a vocal opponent of the library, owns a piece of property in the presidential park and promises to fight the city's attempt to take his property by eminent domain.