Example sentences for: contradicts

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

  • Lewinsky corroborates another key sexual encounter and thus contradicts the president's sworn deposition on Jan.

  • 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.

  • According to Wyndham Lewis, the voice of Jacob Barnes contradicts his own character because it makes a man of action sound passive:

  • Bill Kristol ( This Week ) thinks the agents might testify that Clinton met with Monica Lewinsky Dec. 28--timing that not only contradicts Clinton's sworn testimony (that he never met with Lewinsky after Christmas) but suggests they met to discuss legal strategies.

  • Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.


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