Example sentences for: contradict

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

  • Bradley, who is interested in vying for their endorsements, may cave and contradict his earlier statements on the subject.

  • DGC cDNA clones that appeared to contradict other evidence were also flagged; most frequently, these were not full-length or appeared to contain intronic sequences.

  • Herrnstein and Murray used quasi-nutty studies that support their position (as Charles Lane demonstrated in the New York Review of Books ), and ignore mainstream studies that contradict it (as Richard Nisbett showed in the New Republic ). The data in The Bell Curve are consistently massaged to produce conservative conclusions; not once is a finding that contradicts the main thesis reported in the text.

  • As Walt Whitman might proclaim, they contradict themselves.

  • There is hardly anything he says in the book that he does not contradict at some other point in the book.


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