Example sentences for: opposites

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

  • Oftentimes, these polar opposites come together: Ise-Shima, the most sacred of all sanctuaries of Shinto (Japan’s ancient, nature-worshipping indigenous religion) reinforces Japan’s profoundly intimate links with the Sun Goddess and her grandson, the God of the Earth.

  • Third-graders have long known of "Opposites Day," the fictional day once a year when everything means its opposite.

  • Of course, most ups and downs function as simple opposites, as in uptown versus downtown .

  • Now cynicism comes to the fore, now rage, now a brief interlude of tenderness, but their opposites also are always present--for Nichols is embodying the character, not the character's characteristics.

  • The two campus archetypes were considered to be such polar opposites that the word knurd emerged.


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