Example sentences for: contradictions

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

  • Not that it isn't a good dissection of Goldhagen's contradictions and distortions.

  • The Slate man knows the cultural contradictions of capitalism.

  • On the contrary, they call attention to a truth less honest advisers have preferred to obscure and parents only half want to hear: that child rearing is a messy art of compromise and contradictions, full of uncertainty.

  • Rayfield assists us with these contradictions by saying that, "by the standards of his time," Chekhov was a "judophile."

  • One complaint: Dearborn "prefers to get Mailer's contradictions and irrationalities onto the page as story" instead of exploring the meanings behind them, and she "likes to knock the stuffing out of [Mailer] when she finds him too upholstered" (Caleb Crain, the New York Times Book Review ). (The New York Times ' "featured author" section on Mailer offers an archive of reviews and profiles from the paper.)


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