How to Use archrival in a Sentence

archrival

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  • In baseball, the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are archrivals.
  • If a man’s archrival will miss him that much, how should the rest of us feel?
    — Andrew Das James Hill, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • So, where does all this put the new Raptor compared to its archrival?
    — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The two archrivals shook hands and reconciled this month.
    — Jina Moore, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Travis is back in the lineup, and the Shamrocks seem eager for a rematch with their archrival.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Finland erased a three-goal deficit to beat Sweden 4-3 in overtime and move ahead of its archrival in the standings.
    — Stephen Whyno, chicagotribune.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • At the same time, the car often described as the Accord's archrival, the Toyota Camry, is up 13.7 percent for the year.
    — Mark Phelan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Al-Moallem said Israel is making false claims to try and pressure Iran, its archrival.
    — Washington Post, 2 June 2018
  • Streaming, though, may be departing the role of archrival.
    — Jake Coyle, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That distinction belongs — barely — to Green Bay's archrival to the south.
    — Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2022
  • But what if the nightmare scenario comes true and Contreras winds up signing with the Cubs’ archrival?
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The Reds captured a 2-0 home win over archrivals Everton on Monday to put an end to a four-match winless run.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
  • To this day, my biggest thrill in sports was scoring the winning goal against our high school archrival Walpole in a 1-0 victory.
    — Bill Dow, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2020
  • The Wolfpack would love to add to their archrival’s troubles, though North Carolina State has issues of its own.
    — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2020
  • For the first time since 2012, the country’s richest club Bayern Munich looks set to lose out to archrival Borussia Dortmund.
    — David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2023
  • The archrivals each had been undefeated heading into the game – sorry, The Game.
    — John Affleck, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Callaghan’s first official game as coach of the United States will be against his archrival, Mexico.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • The kind of day when those two shutout losses to the Dodgers over the weekend fade from memory, and the buzz from the two earlier 1-0 victories over the archrival are viewed as the true sign of things to come.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2018
  • What to know: Tennessee looks to reverse a whole lot of recent history and all but eliminate its archrival from the SEC race in the process.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Notre Dame beat all-time archrival Assumption for the first time in the state tournament since 1994, and only the second time in school history in a best-of-five match.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The host Explorers advanced Monday with a 2-1 triumph over archrival and No.
    — Rick O'Brien, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • The Americans could exceed the 130-medal mark and once again will finish comfortably ahead of the Chinese, who have become their archrivals.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • Madrid's archrival Barcelona owns 22 EU trademarks and seven designs.
    — Samuel Petrequin, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There was too much pageantry and distraction in the Blue Devils' embarrassing loss to their archrival in Coach K's final home game.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Browns got a rare win over their archrivals that night to move back into playoff contention, but Garrett’s loss of control was a poor reflection on Kitchens and his staff.
    — Tom Withers, The Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2019
  • At the same time, deliveries for Airbus SE surged, giving the archrival a strong chance to wrestle back the crown of world’s biggest planemaker in 2019.
    — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • Birt, an archrival of the Crips, is expected to serve his sentence in a Washington state prison for his safety, according to court records.
    — oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Max Verstappen, Hamilton’s archrival and this season’s champion-elect, even with 10 races to go, will be the favorite at his home race.
    — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The students spent the morning absorbing the charges facing their coach, then trooped to the tennis courts and defeated their archrival in the county championship.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2021
  • Beef it up with some brand names, keep playing the archrival on an annual basis, and fill the third game with something winnable, potentially someone from the state of Utah.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 May 2021

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