Words similar to oxymoron

Example sentences for: oxymoron

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

I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.
Likewise, when in May 1996, on CBS News, Joe Cook said of gay marriage (a term cynics of an earlier era might well have labeled an oxymoron), The [Roman Catholic] Church sets the standard which people adopt to, some listeners knew that adapt was meant.
For many commentators, a book about the future of the U.S. apparel and textile industries is still an oxymoron.
To be sure, the W usage note, even with its verbosity and the oxymoron “pure hyperbole,” is more helpful than L 's cryptic “disapproved of by some speakers”; but the definitions are better in L because they assume that if a user does not know the meaning of literally , then that of literal is unlikely to be that obvious.
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."