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:

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.
Cynics called it a payback for either 1) Clinton's refusal to meet with Netanyahu recently or 2) Clinton's support for Netanyahu's opponent in the last Israeli election.
You can stay up as in keeping awake, or stay down as in hugging the boxing ring mat for fear of your opponent, yet to stay up can be the opposite of to stay down—it just depends on the context.
The NYT has an interesting front-page profile of Ward Connerly, the millionaire black businessman who has emerged from the campus politics of the University of California to become the nation's most active opponent of racial preferences.
The most outspoken opponent of renewed bombing has been Syria, Iraq's arch-rival.