Example sentences for: oxymoron

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

  • The landmark Swann suit had its origins in the 1955 Supreme Court decision known as Brown II . Brown II gummed up the initial 1954 Brown ruling--which had decreed segregated schools unconstitutional--by saying, in a now-infamous oxymoron, that desegregation should proceed "with all deliberate speed."

  • He is, if this is not an oxymoron, a religious technocrat.

  • Oxymoron is an oxymoron.

  • For many commentators, a book about the future of the U.S. apparel and textile industries is still an oxymoron.

  • Cynics dismiss the term as an oxymoron.


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