Example sentences for: juxtaposition

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

  • Now, sadly, his personal life is itself reduced to a comic juxtaposition.

  • A pleasing juxtaposition of elements, and it's sure fun to type out "sex site Meow Media," but rejected for both form and content.

  • No one could claim that it is an easy task to create collocations dictionaries: the chief problem is where to draw the proverbial line on a spectrum ranging from complete predictability, usually on a left-to-right basis, to total volatility of association by mere juxtaposition, for example, corned beef v. cheap beef .

  • 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.

  • In the WP and NYT and USAT stories, the juxtaposition of these expressions of dissatisfaction with President Clinton's remark that the verdicts "should offer a measure of comfort" makes Clinton look particularly tin-eared.


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