Example sentences for: against

How can you use “against” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Our study was designed to evaluate the accuracy of our method against the gold standard in a population of adults.

  • For example, the uniparental (maternal) mode of inheritance of both mitochondria and insect endosymbionts may reflect host defense against invasion by foreign microbes with strong deleterious effects, which spread more easily under biparental inheritance (Law and Hutson 1992).

  • Literalists often warn against too much reliance on knowledge as opposed to truth as revealed through Scripture.

  • They feared it could fatally damage the authority of the United Nations and lead to a resumption of the Cold War, while benefiting Saddam Hussein and weakening NATO by setting Greece and Turkey against each other.

  • Finally, the β-lactamase fold consists of two subdomains of the β4-α-β-α topology whose β sheets are sandwiched against each other; in structural terms, these domains are completely different from the TIM-barrel, with which the ORF program matched the MJ0301 structural prediction.


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