Example sentences for: counterintuitive

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

  • It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive prediction: Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.

  • EAT FAT is a "postmodern diet book," as Klein puts it (employing a rather eccentric definition of postmodern, which seems roughly to amount to "counterintuitive"): an encomium to corpulence and an excoriation of all the industries that encourage you to be skinny.

  • Looking state by state, the same lack of a pattern emerges: There simply is no good data, counterintuitive though it may seem, to link "speeding" with accidents.

  • ), its sometimes counterintuitive rhythms and emphases ("The captain has turned off the seat-belt sign.

  • This may seem counterintuitive, given that all you hear about lately is how important it is that IBM is moving into services--i.e., its e-business initiative--or that Hewlett-Packard is revitalizing itself as a services company.


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