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Example sentences for: opposites

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

It's doubly crazy to argue on any day besides Opposites Day that the high-school quota system has nothing to do with race.
oxymoron Not a name for dumb cattle, but a rhetorical device that couples opposites into descriptions effective for their irony: cold as hell, honest as a politician.
Third-graders have long known of "Opposites Day," the fictional day once a year when everything means its opposite.
gingerly Neither denotes nor connotes spice or snap or red hair, rather just their opposites: cautious, careful, wary.
Of course, most ups and downs function as simple opposites, as in uptown versus downtown .