Adversary

//ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi//

"Adversary" in a Sentence (14 examples)

We exorcise you, every unclean spirit, every satanic power, every incursion of the infernal adversary, every legion, every congregation and diabolical sect.

An adversary yesterday is a friend today.

If my adversary takes advantage of my weakness, it will be impossible for me to win.

The Master, with equal skill, and much greater composure, remained chiefly on the defensive, and even declined to avail himself of one or two advantages afforded him by the eagerness of his adversary.

I'm really excited to meet my adversary.

The USSR was the principal adversary of the US during the Cold War (1947-1991).

Tom bit his tongue while his political adversary lied to and about him.

He uttered many insults to his adversary.

Chigurh operates outside the boundaries of conventional morality, making him a truly formidable adversary.

In the action movie, the protagonist had to confront a bloodthirsty and merciless adversary.

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He prepared to fight his adversary.

In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidable adversary than James Comey.

The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election.

Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release of the Adversary from prison.

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