Example sentences for: dichotomy

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

  • Perception of patient behavior as a dichotomy of compliant versus not compliant, however, seemed to thwart physician consideration of more subtle issues related to health behaviors and behavioral change.

  • I was especially amused by the Dickinson/Whitman dichotomy.

  • While Gates and Ballmer stress their similarities, Microsoft optimists and Ballmer supporters spin the nerd-frat boy dichotomy as a good thing: Whereas Gates understands gadgets, they suggest, Ballmer understands people.

  • Gary Bauer of the conservative Family Research Council offers the Post this response: "He's setting up a false dichotomy.

  • An analysis by Joshua Salomon and colleagues in this month's PLoS Medicine suggests that trying to concentrate on one or the other of these alternatives is a false dichotomy, and that not integrating the two approaches could have a catastrophic effect on the global toll of HIV/AIDS by 2020.


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