Example sentences for: juxtaposing

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

  • In a short section in which Postmodifying adverbs with adjectives are discussed, confusion is confounded by juxtaposing stiff neck with We were worried stiff .

  • There is no law against combining bogus, ad hoc , “foreign” words and the real thing in one breath, just as Keillor's narrator does in his “Altrusian” blessing, juxtaposing what is obviously nonsense next to genuine Latin ( domino ) and Hebrew ( shadrach, meshach, abednego ). Likewise, in ancient Greek magical texts snippets of Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Babylonian words and proper names commingle in happy abandon with endless concatenations of gibberish, producing a veritable Babelian babble to challenge the ingenuity of Indo-European and Semitist scholars alike two thousand years later, as they wrangle with these more-than-sesquipedalian creations of Greco-Egyptian magical fantasy.

  • "Barak, Arafat to cooperate in probe of bombings," announced Monday's Jerusalem Post . "Barak: Car bombs will not derail process," added Ha'aretz , juxtaposing Arafat with "anti-peace Palestinians."

  • But I am astonished that in his diligent search he did not come up with the most glaringly telling example of all juxtaposing definitions: those for Democracy .

  • From this brilliant overture, it's obvious that the writer-director, David O. Russell, wants to break down your defenses against cinema's violent imagery: He's juxtaposing farce and atrocity in ways that few American directors have dared.


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