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Sentence Examples It might turn out to be less an anomalistic act of a dying old enemy and more the herald of things to come from a new foe. They are a technically reliable threat of last resort to discourage a foe from pressing too hard or threatening national survival. Arrows zinged through the air, archers seemingly uncaring whether the missiles hit friend or foe. Third, I would argue once more that redaction and narrative criticisms are the friend rather than the foe of historical verification. Their unprecedented public embrace confirmed the government was closing ranks against a common foe. He found himself standing before his unyielding foe, fist cocked, and suddenly shook his head. The U.S. military needs to know whether a person encountered by a warfighter is a friend or foe. Can Bruce figure out a way to stop an unstoppable foe when he can barely get out of bed? But, knowing gravity like a lover, he tore off, leaving the last bullet of his foe to land squarely on the knot of a half-twisted bow tie. Her influence was so great that she inspired the Shona and the Ndebele, the largest tribes of Zimbabwe, to unite against their common foe. With heart and hand, Our country's cause defending, We'll meet the foe, With valor unpretending. Wild horses roam the roads and in the jungle you can find giant moths apparently the inspiration for Mothra, Godzilla's legendary foe. He sat there, flamboyantly peering through a pair of binoculars, to poke a bit more borax at his old foe. He is one of Scotland's most revered monarchs yet his body was mutilated and his head used as a football by the English foe. Several struck him, piercing his armor and numbing his limbs with cold, but the stoic fighter shrugged it off and rushed the foe again. He got up, landed some nice shots then finished his foe with a ridiculous counter right hand that knocked him clean out. The captain again advanced towards Alexander, but more slowly and calculatingly, having ascertained the skill of his foe. Instead, the Scots flanked their static English foe and fell on them with cold steel. Cora took a majority decision in this rematch of the 2003 draw between the two men, bulling his way inside to outwork his foe. He was determined to combat whatever foe had arrived to harm the infant princess. Show More Sentences Duty and honor compel him to return to face his foe despite the vehement protestations of Amy, a Quaker. The 17-year-old struggled at first against his southpaw foe from Bulgaria and was a point ahead after round one. And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view. If the stick is pressed toward her foe, Nina will vault over the head of her nemesis, allowing her to strike from behind. Deep prayer was required because the warriors were interceding on behalf of their friend against a foe that could take his life. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish, who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink. Venus' next foe is Australia's Alicia Molik, who has confidence she can dethrone the queen of Flushing Meadows. I would go to my death grappling my foe and cursing the fates with my last breath. The pale man coolly smiled and blocked the blade with his own sword, then counterattacked his foe. He cleaved the head off of an imaginary foe before turning about, parrying a blow by another imaginary enemy. We cannot be exclusionary in our quest for recognition for our armor and cavalry troopers who are in harm's way against a cunning foe. It was this close bond which persuaded him to follow his brothers to the battlefields of France to fight a foe he had no desire to destroy. Shaking the ache out of my hand and pretending not to heed my momentarily stupefied foe, I brush past him, taking advantage of his disbelief. Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet. Immediately, Seltu lunged his body at his foe, hoping finally to rid himself of her wearisome life. John Sweeney has attempted a sad little smear against his foe which rebounded in terrible fashion on him. The woman who lost two husbands and two sons to violent deaths has now come across another formidable foe in this legendary police roundsman. Seemingly possessed by his hands, he becomes a murderer, choking friends and foe alike, vaguely seeking to revenge the death of Meta's father. Well, if you couldn't be there in person, celebrating England's triumph over their traditional cricketing foe while stooging around the Caribbean would take some beating. Show More Sentences He had a Breton thing, in that he burns friend and foe alike. There has been no greater foe of campaign finance reform than mitch McConnell over the years. His past had been immortalized in historical and mythical novels, and his battle against the unseen foe of the future was being recorded even now. Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible. It was no use to undertake to try conclusions with the foe in open fight. Its very success, however, triggers new and intense activity among opponents who see in her a foe whose defeat will require their most determined efforts. Tanner, son of a clergyman and a foe of drinking and smoking, was generally devout and upright. Tron finds the MCP, which for such a formidable foe, turns out to be a mean cartoon-animated face. Whoever praised Frederick within the borders of his realm did so from necessity, to evade the indignation of a prince who wreaked stern vengeance upon every foe. And the horde charged once more, their nerves steeled and their war-cries resonating, ready to shred, rend and tear apart any foe, be it human or not. He should also be remembered for being an early and eloquent foe of Nazism. In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a foe of the industry, has been seated on the Senate banking committee. With a hammer-like left hook and crushing body shots, Provodnikov was beating his gutsy foe down, body part by body part. There is no honour in defeating a foe when his back is turned. They haven't settled down just because their old foe is gone. Stronger than rock, it yields a mighty blow to the foe with each assault. This kid is amazing although he has recently had a sudden dip in form which has concerned me such as his game foe England against Greece in which he misplaced too many passes. You will use the knowledge of heraldry and blazonry taught to you at great pains by your father's herald to identify other characters and know them for friend or foe. I mean we had to resort to actually simulcasting our ads on GB and CH to offer the same audience at the same price as one ad in one shift, the unbeatable foe. Show More Sentences Lining up your shot while not giving your foe a chance at your broadside is a challenge, and having the biggest ship doesn't always ensure victory. There was no high tech foe in Iraq or Afghanistan, and over Libya, the raptor was not the right jet for the task. North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along. The rival, the foe, the ofay, veins stretched and bulged between white knuckles. The method of identifying friend from foe was not through tartans but by the colour of ribbon worn upon the bonnet. Even when Robin is defeated, he usually tricks his foe into letting him sound his horn, summoning the Merry Men to his aid. Vernon points out that friend and foe alike would agree that this was a total mischaracterization of the man. Tymoshenko has written to her political foe President Viktor Yanukovych to demand her transferral. But I have comforted myself with the thought that no one, cither friend or foe, would believe such a transparent lie as his. The British troops broke ranks to loot the abandoned French wagons instead of pursuing the beaten foe. My Mini, and the slightly nippier Cooper S version at that, would surely hold its own against its foe. But who now languished in a jailcell with a split pate while his foe sped away into the night? As a pair of Others whom we cannot categorise into an organisable, controllable group, we can define them neither as friend or foe. Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance. But the gleaming chassis of Schwarzenegger's latest foe is something entirely out of the ordinary. Every day I am more and more an Antiministerialist, and an implacable foe of the unholy Alliance. Oxygen is an accomplice, not a foe, in the production of vin jaune, which is made of the savagnin grape, a Jura staple. Diop, sometimes criticized for passive play, saw red once this season when he lashed out at a foe who kicked away his legs. Although the dynasty's founder Commius had become a foe of Caesar's, his sons submitted to Augustus as client kings. Although the Tatars quickly began raids against their familiar foe, after a short period they ceased, leaving the Russians to their new town. Show More Sentences A Spanish sword made of steel was considered the pinnacle of craftsmanship and a well trained swordsman could be a dominant foe. A larger force can better sustain the punishment it receives while attriting the foe. To him they devoted the first share of the spoil, and in his honor arms stripped from the foe were suspended from trees. Together they invent the comic book hero, The Escapist, a mighty adventurer who aids the world's oppressed while tackling the fiendish fascist foe. While seeking out Iron Man, she had her first superfight, little realizing her foe was the armored madman Dr. Doom, who was in the area on undisclosed business of his own. A more remorseless foe, however, than Foote appeared in the person of Charles Churchill, the wild and unclerical son of a poor curate of Westminster. The British and colonists triumphed jointly over a common foe. Like the men who went to Catraeth Gareth fell fighting a numerous foe But he earned his mead Like a wildcat he fought And scrammed the eye of death. Controlling as they did the best route to Athens, the Athenians and their Plataean allies decided, rather than attack a foe that vastly outnumbered them, to wait. And forward spurred his mounture fierce withal, Within his arms longing his foe to strain, Upon whose helm the heavy blow did fall, And bent well-nigh the metal to his brain. The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe. Beowulf, finding that Hrunting cannot harm his foe, puts it aside in fury. Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows. John T. Greble, of the 2d regular artillery, was likewise killed instantly by a ball through the head, while serving his gun in the face of the foe. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it. When it was over, the victors triumphantly plundered the goods of their fallen foe, collecting the weapons and trinkets from the bodies of the fallen. They broke apart, and Quin glared across the two paces or so of distance between him and his foe, waiting patiently for the next onslaught. This Polish-Thai gastronomic centaur signals either overinventiveness or a commendable resistance to good cooking's greatest foe, perfunctoriness. Do they imagine that the timely renunciation of resolve can placate an implacable foe? Meanwhile, Shuae had already quickly dispatched his opponent, the twin blades surprising and overcoming his foe. Show More Sentences For a moment, despite the obviously imperative differences in gender, they emerge as the twin epic heroes on the same side, fighting the same war against a common foe. Each nation is a potential target whether or not they work together to defeat their common foe. I am one of those sad little pinheads who think it's really one war, one foe, with a thousand fronts. Your nation endured the blitz to prevail over an implacable foe. Communism was a formidable foe, administered by a one-party authoritarian state apparatus, and lodged in institutions and practices of its centralized command economy. Joined by a common foe, Van Helsing and Anna set out to destroy Dracula along with his empire of fear. Angel gripped the hilt of the dagger, still not certain whether he was friend or foe. The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality. Examples from Classical Literature The sound, the weirdness of the hooters in itself, would keep back a braver foe. The yell of the Highlanders was in their ears, and the huzzah of the English soldiers, as they dashed upon the retreating foe. He tensed, straining his ears for any movement that might locate the hidden foe. He is a real foe, and we must meet him in the open, under cover, and invisibly. We jobbed our bayonets under the lager-beer counter, to provide for the case of any lurking foe in that quarter. The foe were not slow in discovering this, and in deriving courage from their discovery. He had so little contempt for his foe that he practised a blighting caution. The sunbow spans your towers, even while the foe Hurls his fell bolt, and rains his iron blow. Probably Kuban was making a rush at his foe, while I tried to get him by the neck. Here, six hundred men all told, including a handful of men from Schwyz, awaited the foe. Lieutenant Langmuir, revolver in hand, fell after he had killed eight of the foe. The reason the secretary bird is protected is because it is a bitter foe to snakes. As he lay with his face to the foe, the tableau vivant met his gaze the instant he opened his eyes. He returned to encamp in a dense cane-brake, where no foe could approach without giving warning. The carpet beetle is a recognized foe of the housekeeper, the larv feeding upon all sorts of woolen material. What a foe not only to life, but to all that dignifies and ennobles it, is Time! I should say this was a margay, and it would have proved a cruel foe, not only of our poultry, but also of our sheep and goats. The marsh harrier which measures twenty-one to twenty-three inches is a formidable foe to moles and mice, rabbits and reptiles. See, he fences at his foe with a truncheon, and hustles him while his horse is down. What war could ravish, commerce could bestow, And he returned a friend, who came a foe. Show More Sentences It was a little lame schoolmaster, Tyrtaeus, who aroused the Spartans by his poetry and led them to victory against the foe. It is their acm of happiness to mount the war-steed and ride against the foe. Every chance-comer was instantaneously gauged as dyspeptic or eupeptic, friend or foe. With unproclaimed chivalry and a readiness to meet the foe which tells its own story, the Western men come on. The foe are the dogs who have bayed us so to their cost for days and weeks. Me therein, an innocent man, the fiendish foe was fain to thrust with many another. What availed Samson's fidelity to the Nazirite vow when by another gate he let in the foe? Directly he marched off it would be his terrible foe, the host and concealer of a thousand ambushes. They are a dangerous, tenacious, resilient, ruthless and unrelenting foe to have. A man with a blood-feud, and his foe hard after him, may sleep in safety at a faquir's grave. For the team could refrain from conflict no longer, and charged like a flying wedge to worry the dying foe. The wolf showed himself, and at once the Irish wolf dog sprang upon his foe. By this time, the first of August, we knew more about the foe we were to meet. He was daily worse fed, and as the weeks went by was daily less able to crush a foe. Was it red earth, or was it the blood of friend and foe that coloured the water? They mock at wounds who never confronted a foe more tangible than a Baconian cryptogam. As to the men of phyle, they too blocked the street at the opposite end, and facing the foe. As long as fortis Etruria crevit, Fsul must always have held its own as a frontier post against the Ligurian foe. What can you do with a pop-gun if the foe will not wait until you have taken aim at him? He was a sworn foe to the unusual and the conspicuous, a praiser of the golden mean, a kind of city uncle modified by Cheeryble. Show More Sentences The approach of a common foe, however, the terrible Magyars, led the nation to rally around Otto. The exquisitely shaped silver model is a dashing and gallant foe, worthy of the finest steel tempered at Kendal or redditch. You were friendless, and the man who has all earth for a foe befriends you. Percy waited until his foe was almost upon him, then agilely leaped to one side. Though our foe cannot be slain, he can, like the genii of Eastern story, be baffled. Still, as Giunta acknowledged, the rifacimento had been irretrievably damaged by some private foe. The victor dropped the bladed end of his weapon, and surveyed his foe, with astonishment, then pity. He had figured on grabbing one of the guns and shinning up to the friendly crotch, there to despatch his foe at leisure. Like the hawk owl, it is a day-flying bird, and is a terrible foe to the smaller mammalia, and to various birds. So Hedin, with the help of his men, was taken back to his ship, saved by the kindness of his foe. But simurgh, the bird of God, shewed Rustem the way he should follow in order to vanquish his redoubtable foe. For him demos has ever been the most exacting of tyrants, the true foe to individuality. The two armies met at length on the banks of the river siris, where Rome fought its first great battle with a foreign foe. But he offered pardon to hereward, as he had to Waltheof, for he loved an open foe. Shouting on the foe he fell, And like thunder rang his war-cry O'er the cowering infidel. Friend or foe, he who touches me shall have a bullet in his gizzard. The samnite foe pressed them still more closely into the rocky pass. We can fight all the better now the foe is in the open, and we know where he is. He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. The islanders obeyed including Aegina, the deadly foe of Athens. Show More Sentences The foe arrives, sees the antlered monarch, and is panic-struck. To fight in trenches against a foe who had no cover nor any firearms was rather a different thing from bearding them in their own lair. Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man? Above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe we spread. With a final scream of jungle invective and an apelike grimace at his departing foe, Tarzan continued along his way. This was the language of the cold-hearted foe, secure of superior power. He exhorted them, therefore, to keep upon the alert, and never to remit their vigilance while within the range of so crafty and cruel a foe. There is not a surer shot, or a deadlier foe on earth then Persimmon Bill. But not for himself did Meleager despoil the body of his foe. Did Brayne hate his foe so fiendishly that he stood sabring his body in the moonlight? The ephebi had behaved treacherously by taking sides with their foe. Austria was an exigent ally, and Frederick of Prussia a dangerous foe. Happily, Gertrude, though she sees as yet but darkly, feels that Miss Lindsay is her bitterest foe. They lie at the mercy of every foe, of every passion, of every change. His eye was like an eagle's, his nose somewhat hooked, and he held his head a little forward, as a man who searches continually for a hidden foe. I have vanquished my foe in fair fight with sword and shield,'' he added, brandishing the brawn in one hand and the wooden sword in the other. Narayan Rane appears to have buried the hatchet with his sworn foe, Vilasrao Deshmukh. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. But there is still the ruined wall, and near it the stealthy tread of the foe that would win over again his unforgotten triumph. She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe. Show More Sentences Self-pity is the surest, yet the most insidious foe to self-poise. In both The Tain and in Deirdre we find the love of fighting, the brave joy of the strong man when he finds a gallant foe. I always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat. Reports, no doubt, from Mrs Everett, my aunt's longtime foe. Instantly he remounted, and was again in the thickest of the foe. And I misdoubt me that the king himself will be my foe also. A brave foe, by Mithras, is far better than a feeble friend. Wetamoo immediately became the unrelenting foe of the English. Should he dispose of it properly, as one should with a validly slain foe? But the non-arrival of the foe caused a relaxation of vigilance. Without the voice of friend or foe, the garden of olivet was silent. And I knew that this Osset Chief had been a hereditary foe to my father. There are more than 20 combination moves to master, most of which result in your foe being decapitated, dismembered or disembowel. Cold-hearted White Witch Tilda Swinton is a worthy foe for growly lion king Aslan in this gaudy fantasy from CS Lewis's far-flung fables. As he struggled around the ring, the fifty pounds of his foe ever dragging on his throat, his anger passed on into panic. Nineteen prisoners and a pom-pom were captured from the foe. I had meant well by friend and foe in turn, and I had ended in doing execrably by both. And Ponta was like a madman, raging because of his impotency in the face of his helpless and all but vanquished foe. As I said, I am an individualist, and individualism is the hereditary and eternal foe of socialism. Before I had done I was more the friend than the foe of the pine tree, though I had cut down some of them, having become better acquainted with it. Show More Sentences He wanted to give the finish to this foe already so far gone. You would fight only by broad daylight, warn your foe before an attack, and never attempt anything by night lest you should be accused of taking advantage of the darkness. When he finds he is approaching one of those streams, his dread is so lively that he is disposed to fly the track and avoid the implacable foe. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of foe? Words that rhyme with foe What is the plural of foe? What is the adjective for foe? What is the noun for foe? Translations for foe Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fodder FOD focussing focusses focussed focus on Foe FOE foederati foehn foel foeman 3-letter Words Starting With f fo