adversary

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adversary, each labelled with its topic.

• Her adversary in the final had beaten her twice online, and this time she took the first two rounds quickly.

  Gaming

• They had been adversaries for a decade, but the two senators wrote the flood bill together in a single week.

  Politics

• A good argument needs an adversary who states your position better than you did before taking it apart.

  Philosophy

• Her oldest adversary now coached the other bench, and both teams played the whole night like a grudge match.

  Basketball

• In court the two former partners became adversaries, each hiring a lawyer to argue over the same patent.

  Law

• The startup's fiercest adversary was not a rival app but the spreadsheet every customer already used and trusted.

  Startups

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