FOE in a Sentence

Learn FOE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

80 example sentences for FOE, such as:

1. So speaks he, and bursts amid the serried foe.
2. The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.
3. A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
4. The two countries have united against their common foe.
5. But rage and mad thirst of slaughter drive him like fire on the foe.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
foe
 n.  enemy; one who entertains hatred, grudge; adversary
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  Their very foe would extol the Teucrians with highest praises, and boasted himself a branch of the ancient Teucrian stem.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  The foe holds our walls; from her high ridges Troy is toppling down.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
3  I descend, and under a god's guidance clear my way between foe and flame; weapons give ground before me, and flames retire.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
4  Mine own hand shall find me death: the foe will be merciful and seek my spoils: light is the loss of a tomb.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
5  My comrades strip, and, slippery with oil, exercise their ancestral contests; glad to have got past so many Argive towns, and held on their flight through the encircling foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
6  So, though shame and wrath beckon them on to battle, they yet bar the gates and do his bidding, and await the foe armed and in shelter of the towers.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
7  News is brought to Turnus the captain, as he rages afar among the routed foe, that the enemy surges forth into fresh slaughter and flings wide his gates.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
8  But rage and mad thirst of slaughter drive him like fire on the foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
9  At last, hearing of the slaughter of their men, the Teucrian captains, Mnestheus and gallant Serestus, come up, and see their comrades in disordered flight and the foe let in.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
10  No gods are they who bear us down; mortals, we feel the pressure of a mortal foe; we have as many lives and hands as he.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
11  So speaks he, and bursts amid the serried foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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12  Yet that they should meet face to face the sovereign of high Olympus allowed not; an early fate awaits them beneath a mightier foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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13  But not in words does the Trojan hero frame his reply: for he hurls his javelin at the foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
14  But in front of the battle-ranks the phantom dances rejoicingly, and with arms and mocking accents provokes the foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
15  The Tyrrhene ranks gather round him, and all at once in unison shower their darts down on the hated foe.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
Example Sentence:
1  The wounded knight refused to yield to his foe.
2  It is not our aim to subjugate our foe; we are interested only in establishing peaceful relations.
3  Thirty years after the war, she could not let go of the past but was still consumed with rancor against the foe.
4  "Zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he tried to vaporize another deadly foe.
5  One foe is too many; and a hundred friends too few.
6  A courageous foe is better than a cowardly friend.
7  The two countries have united against their common foe.
8  He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.
9  During the Cold War period, neighboring countries tried not to offend the Russians because they could be redoubtable foes.