Sample Sentences for
juxtaposition
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    I reached up and kissed him and it was very, very real, despite the quite surreal juxtaposition of colors in the night sky.  (source)
    juxtaposition = positioning dissimilar things side-x-side
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    ...he produces a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other.  (source)
    juxtaposition = side-x-side positioning (usually to contrast)
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    The juxtaposition is jarring: Religious institutions remain a positive force in people's lives, but in a part of the country slammed by the decline of manufacturing, joblessness, addiction, and broken homes, church attendance has fallen off.†  (source)
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    Last night had been a surreal juxtaposition, jumping from a dreamscape of steam and candles and Barry White, and into a nightmare straight from a zombie apocalypse—a darkened lobby lit by headlamps, screaming and cursing, guns being waved around while a ragged, dirty gang of humans pressed against a glass wall, banging, begging to get inside.†  (source)
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    The screen cuts to another photo of me juxtaposed with Amazing Amy.†  (source)
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    When we don't have a story we make one up—that's why the juxtapositions of film editing work.†  (source)
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    Juxtaposing those stories with the one of my weekend dates cheapened everything about them.†  (source)
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    He didn't understand why the Times would take a ball game off the sports page and juxtapose it with news of such ominous consequence.†  (source)
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    And almost casually, with a confidence that stood in surprising and unreasonable juxtaposition to his tiny size, Owen Meany told me that he was sure my father was alive, that he was sure my father knew he was my father, and that God knew who my father was; even if my father never came forth to identify himself, Owen told me, God would identify him for me.†  (source)
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    The dirty feeling of being an agent for a foreign power, juxtaposed with the thrill of fooling a whole legion of government spooks.†  (source)
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    The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants.†  (source)
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    The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling.†  (source)
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    The Devonian fish, the juxtaposed thumb, the fontanel, technology—click click, click click ...†  (source)
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