opponent

How To Use opponent In A Sentence

• If to "get 'borked' was 'to be unscrupulously torpedoed by an opponent ... to get' miered '[i] s to be' unscrupulously torpedoed by an ally. ' Revolution
• So I stare down at the pool table and pretend to study my opponent's next move.
• They inflicted severe psychological damage on their opponents.
• Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
• I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents. Michelle Obama's Nascar boos | Kay Dilday
• So far is he from admitting the possibility of any dissiliency between the Divine will and absolute right, that he turns the tables on his opponents, and classes among Atheists those of his contemporaries who maintain that God can command what is contrary to the intrinsic right; that He has no inclination to the good of his creatures; that He can justly doom an innocent being to eternal torments; or that whatever God wills is just because He wills it. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
• The Warriors lost a battle despite outshooting and mostly outplaying their opponents.
• The regime got rid of most of its opponents.
• One of the most significant concerns presented by opponents is that suicide ideation is most likely a symptom of psychopathology.
• For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.