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."

  • Cynics dismiss the term as an oxymoron.

  • Oxymoron is an oxymoron.

  • Coz casts himself as the conscience of tabloid journalism (if that's not an oxymoron).

  • “ Retrogressive aggrandizements,” maybe, but that's an oxymoron of another colour entirely.


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