Example sentences for: juxtaposes

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

  • Against the danger of trivializing the Holocaust by speaking of it too lightly, Alter juxtaposes the threat of elevating the Holocaust into something quasi-theological by speaking of it in religious terms.

  • The Post juxtaposes its report that as of right now, Reno still feels the coffee videos are not indications of Clinton criminality with mention of the appearance in the tapes of Arief Wiriadinata, an Indonesian who identifies himself on camera as an emissary of the Lippo Bank's James Riady, and of five businessmen having coffee with the president in the Oval Office who, it is now known, each contributed $100,000 within a week.

  • The NYT piece on Clinton's response makes the same main points, and has the same explanatory quote from him, but juxtaposes this with an interview with Sen.

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • Diaz then juxtaposes Ellis' assertion that a certain health claim for Metabolife is "not on the Metabolife Web--Web page," with Ellis' subsequent embarrassed admission, when presented with contrary evidence, that "I don't know my company Web site.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast