8 sentences with 'enemy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word enemy and other words derived from it.
• « Within seconds the surgeon had found the enemy: the deadly tentacles of a tumor that was slowly strangling the nervous system. »
• « Which apostle was a bitter enemy of the followers of Jesus before his conversion on the road to Damascus? »
• « The supreme enemy of the Sun was the giant serpent Apep - incarnation of Set, brother of Osiris - who constantly tried to devour the solar disc. »
• « These new spearmen held the enemy in place and then the cavalry attacked them, a tactic that proved effective against both the "barbarian" tribes and the traditional Greek phalanxes. »
• « However, the Seleucid kingdom held out until its remnants were defeated in 63 BC by Pompey the Great of Rome, a former ally and later enemy of Julius Caesar. »
• « Later emperors also built massive fortifications, walls so strong that it took 1,000 years for an enemy to breach them (namely the Ottoman Turks, who finally conquered the city of Constantinople in 1453 CE). »
• « It is also clear from archaeology that many Germans made a career of fighting in Roman armies and then returned to their home areas, and that many Germans regarded Rome as a model of civilisation to emulate, not as a permanent enemy. »
• « A direct demonstration of the strength of the themma system of organisation (administrative division of the Byzantine Empire) was that Rome's perennial enemy, the Persians, fell against the Arab invasion of the 7th century, while the Byzantines did not. »