How to Use Achilles' heel in a Sentence

Achilles' heel

noun
  • This is our greatest Achilles' heel.
    — Michael Ponting, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Except white is an OLED’s Achilles' heel.
    — Xiaozhi Lim, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Oct. 2019
  • For years, spacing has been an Achilles' heel, often clogging driving lanes for LeBron.
    — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The very thing that makes open source so powerful—its speed and accessibility—is also its Achilles' heel.
    — Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Amir Levy/Getty The fact that Hamas is holding hostages seems to be Israel's Achilles' heel.
    — Meredith Wolf Schizer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This is the Achilles' heel of countless companies, as IT management and employee management must increasingly be considered holistically.
    — Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • With Jesse Minter stepping in to replace the legendary John Harbaugh, the pressure is on General Manager Eric DeCosta to provide his new coach with the tools necessary to fix a unit that proved to be the team's Achilles' heel last season.
    — Cbs Baltimore Staff, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026

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