Example sentences for: juxtaposition

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

  • Below, actual phone book public service messages, the actual paid ads that accompany them on the page, and the presumed meaning of their juxtaposition.

  • The juxtaposition on the Post top-front is striking: "Top Aides shouted down at 'Town Meeting' on Iraq" cheek-by-jowl with "The Guys are Pumped," over a story about the stealth fighter crews massing in Kuwait.

  • It is, of course, the juxtaposition of childish amusements and adult ornamentation that makes this list so pleasingly perverse.

  • Berkeley anthropologist Jonathan Marks, in the May issue of the Anthropology Newsletter , calls Wrangham's juxtaposition of apes with a black man "callous and thoughtless science" that trades on historically racist associations.

  • That's the message of The Potato Eaters , with its little glinting lamp illuminating the darkness and its loaded juxtaposition on the background wall of ticking clock and Crucifixion, time and eternity.


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