Sentence examples for imaginary foes from inspiring English sources

He thrust and slashed at imaginary foes.

By that measure Mr. Moore is fluent in baiting imaginary foes.

From then on he joined with his second wife in fighting against these imaginary foes who were supposed to have deprived him and Germany of victory.

I don't give up!" sweat-soaked Hutz cries at imaginary foes, as he clambers on the big drum being carried triumphantly aloft by the crowd.

"Who are you to the people of Zimbabwe to say, 'Stop Mugabe!' " he asked, challenging imaginary foes, his fierce brown eyes snapping, dancing, daring.

All he had to do was mouth along to the rowdy words — "I get ratchet with my ratchet!" — and mimic the gun blasts that pepper the track by shooting an imaginary shotgun at imaginary foes.

Bonkers, a clown flown in from the UK, entertained spectators, and there was a military march-past, like a flexed muscle before an imaginary foe.

On one such occasion he startled me in the middle of the night by shouting in his sleep and fighting an imaginary foe.

Told this, his wife, Ute Krause, said, "D'Artagnan," and he gestured as if sword fighting, saying "en garde" to an imaginary foe.

Shadow-boxing an imaginary foe called "McGovernism" is not only futile, but also, Miroff's book makes clear, a disservice to McGovern.

As if on cue, Tal takes aim at a nearby tree with a crude slingshot, using chestnuts as ammunition, and then attempts to vanquish an imaginary foe with a bow and arrow made from branches.