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Example sentences for: opponent

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

"The reason for the Republican defeat is to be found not in the economy, not in the opponent, not in the stars, but in the candidates," Krauthammer writes.
The minimum equipment for an animal with two color receptor types is one type of opponent neuron, receiving antagonistic inputs from the two types of cells.
The thin line being tightroped by the U.N. explains the paper, is to assert its sole administrative authority without turning the KLA into an opponent.
Borrowing a political-advertising technique (a shot of a television, with the opponent's spot playing, as a sign that we're being manipulated, that what we're seeing isn't real), it takes us into a grungy living room, where two unbuffed slobs respond to the Jooky commercial just ending on their TV set.
When he upends his campaign, yanks off his necktie, and engages his opponent, he's a risible Washington stiff trying to be what he's not.