oxymoronin a sentence
- As he looked around at the moon's surface, Aldrin's uttered his famous oxymoron, "Magnificent desolation."
- Civil debate should not be an oxymoron.
- Bullhead City is a community in the oxymoronic, late-twentieth-century idiom.† (source)
- "In literature the word 'oxymoron' means which of the following?† (source)
- Langdon thought it sounded impossibly oxymoronic.† (source)
- Like they say, military intelligence is an oxymoron.† (source)
- It is the penultimate oxymoron-a nonfactorable variable.† (source)
- The phrase "a little genetic test" strikes me as an oxymoron.† (source)
- Fun math is an oxymoron.† (source)
- This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic.† (source)
- …and told me exactly how to woo her because as we know from Katrina, Hassan is actually quite good at that stuff, and it worked and I loved her and she loved me and it lasted for three months, until NOV ember of tenth grade, when she finally broke up with me because she said, and I am quoting directly here, that I was both 'too smart and too dumb' for her, which marked the beginning of Katherines having ridiculous, idiotic, and frequently oxymoronic reasons for breaking up with me.† (source)
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- According to paranormal investigators—an oxymoron if Jeremy had ever heard one—poltergeists were generally drawn to a particular person instead of a place.† (source)
- Why the oxymoron?† (source)
- The kind that lets you embrace those internal contradictions that make up an entire, oxymoronic, complex, complete human being.† (source)
- " 'Math joke' is an oxymoron, Fishhead, like 'cafeteria food' or 'required volunteer community service.† (source)
- The arm squeezes viciously around my throat, and I decide the term "angel of mercy" is an oxymoron.† (source)
- Simple grandeur, she thought, finding the oxymoron the perfect description of the ancient and the life going quietly on around it.† (source)
- I know that sounds like an oxymoron.† (source)
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