How to Use archenemy in a Sentence

archenemy

noun
  • The country went to war with its archenemy.
  • The two politicians were archenemies.
  • The goal is to find and bring down archenemy Muzan.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But use value had of course also been the archenemy of modernist sculpture.
    — Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • The archenemy of the papermaker is lignin, which is a complex polymer found in the cell walls of most plants.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2014
  • Portune, an archenemy of silence, clammed up when PX asked him about running.
    — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 13 May 2017
  • Turabi helped Bashir seize power in a coup in 1989 -- who is now his archenemy.
    — Andrew Natsios, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2011
  • Young was able to get off only one shot in that stretch, to the delight of a Garden crowd that had booed every mistake of their new archenemy.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • Akesson said that the bigger neighbor across the Baltic is, and always has been, Sweden’s archenemy.
    — Amanda Billner, Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Like many an archenemy of the bourgeoisie, Jünger came from a thoroughly bourgeois background.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • But the road to thawing relations with its archenemy, South Korea, was rocky.
    — Gerry Mullany, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • The strikes further burst into the open what’s been a long shadow war between Israel and its archenemy Iran.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Jared Leto stars as He-Man’s archenemy, Skeletor.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
  • But this time, after beating the familiar archenemy, a purple rift starts to swallow Link whole.
    — James Perkins Mastromarino, NPR, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Here comes the San Diego Padres – the archenemy of baseball tradition.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2020
  • After all, who truly understands you except for your archenemy?
    — Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • But the country’s steps away from its obligations under the accord have alarmed its archenemy Israel and world powers.
    — Josef Federman, ajc, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Qatar has rather cozy relations with Iran, the Saudi kingdom's archenemy.
    — chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
  • Andy Samberg is claiming he was not involved in the recent death of his longtime archenemy, Frisbee.
    — Emlyn Travis Updated, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Tehran is seeking to set up military bases in Syria that will extend its reach across the region, right up to the doorstep of archenemy Israel.
    — Nazih Osseiran, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Israel accuses its archenemy Iran of funding some of the militant groups involved in the fighting.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • Even as big an artist as Swift wouldn’t have been able to make that ask without her future archenemy, the Big Machine label, backing her at the time.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Barcelona is coming off its Copa del Rey triumph over archenemy Real Madrid, and now has its sights set on a treble.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Iran’s theocracy is a main sponsor of Hamas in its fight against Israel, Tehran’s regional archenemy.
    — NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Israel has a big stake in Azerbaijan, which serves as a critical source of oil and is a staunch ally against Israel’s archenemy Iran.
    — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Life-size cutouts of langur monkeys have been scattered among the half a million decorative plants placed across the city with the aim of scaring away their archenemy, rhesus monkeys that plague parts of the city.
    — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This blend greatly reduces resonance, the archenemy of clarity.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2025
  • But its primary archenemy is Israel and Jews, who are frequently targeted by its proxies.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Ahead of his departure, Netanyahu said Monday that archenemy Iran would top his agenda and voiced optimism for the visit.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • The Houthis, who are aligned with Saudi archenemy Iran, dismissed the proposal as containing nothing new.
    — Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2021

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