Sample Sentences for

discord

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

There is too much discord in their home.

They attempted to inflame Shi'ah-Sunni discord.

The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Kinnear did not seem to notice the discord.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963

discordant with the sinewy length of his jawline  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

The walls of the rooms were discordantly papered.  (source) Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900

Nick could not look at his brother without wanting to pop him a shot across the mouth. ... The deep discordance, the old muscling of wills, that ungiving thing in the idea of brothers.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.†  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

To render their voices harsh, it would seem to require active, malignant, passions, though, when excited, their screams can rise to a sufficiently conspicuous degree of discordancy to assert their claim to possess this distinctive peculiarity of the sex.†  (source) James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, 1841

Over the next two years the political discord, fueled by the Congress Party and the Church, slid into anarchy.  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

And on that lofty plane all will fall into place, all discords be resolved, and truth flash forth from the dark cloud of seeming injustice.  (source) Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947

The entire business had taken an hour and twenty minutes, only one discordant note intruding on the smooth proceedings.  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

She heard the discordant clanging of pots in the kitchen.

...laughed with just the right tone of appreciation, but the sound carried a note of discord as it collided with...  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio–rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord–a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

the screams and bangs and all the discordant sounds of the battle  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

Then she hastily blundered into the opening bars of "Jacket of Gray" and stopped with a discord as she remembered how heartrending that selection was too.  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

discords in the bass  (source) Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, 1984

I shivered violently, and shouted again--rather discordantly.  (source) H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895

...the crack of Winchesters had the discordance of a nightmare.  (source) Zane Grey, The Thundering Herd, 1925

The music came to a crashing, discordant halt,  (source) Stephen King, Carrie, 1974

he made a deep rumbling noise like a discord on a great organ  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1955

...harp out of his pocket and began to extract doleful discords from it,  (source) Zane Grey, The Heritage of the Desert, 1910

Their merry voices contrasted discordantly...  (source) Zane Grey, The Call of the Canyon, 1924

I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989