Example sentences for: counterintuitive

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

  • The WP and LAT front a fresh study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, appearing in today's JAMA , with a counterintuitive result: a significant decline in high-school violence in the 1990s.

  • 002018) by Meir Stampfer from Harvard School of Public Health, and there is no doubt that these results seem counterintuitive.

  • 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.

  • 285)--"Sir, Counterintuitive, Sir!"

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


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