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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 Jerusalem Post 's editorial said, however, that Barak's landslide "was not only a function of his opponent's failures, but of Netanyahu's success."
The WP 's "The Reliable Source" reports that David Duke now has an opponent in the race to fill Bob Livingston's soon-to-be-vacated congressional seat: it's--and this is really her name--Monica Monica.
For example, the Shiv Sena party leader, Bal Thackeray, told an opponent to "get circumcised" if he had so much empathy with Muslims, and informed Congress Party leaders that their dependence on Sonia Gandhi (widow of onetime Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) showed they were "impotent."
Normally, when you're invited to accuse your opponent of something, the smart course is to accept the offer.
"My goodness, no politician can withstand their resources," Focus on the Family's James Dobson, the commission's leading gambling opponent, tells me.