Example sentences for: opposites

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

  • Cobuild and CED are far from being such polar opposites, but they exemplify this general point.

  • 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.

  • It's doubly crazy to argue on any day besides Opposites Day that the high-school quota system has nothing to do with race.

  • gingerly Neither denotes nor connotes spice or snap or red hair, rather just their opposites: cautious, careful, wary.

  • In what other language can quite a lot and quite few mean the same thing, as well as loosen and unloosen, ravel and unravel, passive and impassive, flammable and inflammable, shameful and shameless (behavior) and What won't he do next ? and What will he do next ? In what other language are overlook and oversee opposites but a slim chance and a fat chance the same?


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