Sample Sentences for
contrast
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(editor-reviewed)

contrast as in:  contrast their writing styles

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Contrast winter in Panama with winter in Alaska.
contrast = point to differences between
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    Contrast typical underlying beliefs of pro-life and pro-choice supporters.
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    The author uses the characters to contrast the pressures felt by someone who spends everything earned and someone who saves money each month.
    contrast = compare to show differences
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    ...he had thought that up to make me understand he wasn't afraid of Radleys in any shape or form, to contrast his own fearless heroism with my cowardice.  (source)
    contrast = point to the difference between
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    In contrast, my mother looks flushed and angry.  (source)
    In contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
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    Frau Holtzapfel appeared to be waiting for me in the kitchen. ... By contrast, Frau Diller was fast asleep.  (source)
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    At school, she once nearly got them in trouble, when her history teacher assigned the class to write a paper contrasting the views of Demosthenes and Locke as expressed in two of their early columns.  (source)
    contrasting = pointing to differences between
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    "Only it forces rather strongly on the mind the picture of what might have been," said Mr. Rivers, "and contrasts it somewhat too vividly with what is."  (source)
    contrasts = compares (in a way that shows differences)
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    Forms of Political Government Compared and Contrasted  (source)
    Contrasted = compared to show differences
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    The Vonnegut's perfectly rendered steel loading ramp lowered to the ground, standing out in sharp contrast against the digital blackness of Archaide's surface.  (source)
    contrast = in a comparison that shows differences
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    Alice's short black hair was not in its usual spiky do—it was smoothed into sleek pin curls around her pixie face, which wore a contrastingly businesslike expression.†  (source)
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    In contrast to the Three Broomsticks, the pub appeared to be completely empty.  (source)
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    By contrast, the owl publicity was a nightmare for Mother Paula's All-American Pancake Houses, Inc., which found itself the subject of an unflattering front-page article in the Wall Street Journal.  (source)
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    I couldn't help contrasting Nigel's lessons with Rufus's.  (source)
    contrasting = comparing in a way that shows differences
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contrast as in:  there is a contrast

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    There was quite a contrast between the styles of the two teachers.
    contrast = notable difference
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    The two girls who set out soon after breakfast did not provide such a contrast as on Meeting Day.  (source)
    contrast = something notably different
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    In stark contrast to the person in uniform yesterday, he looked more boyish, more real.  (source)
    contrast = difference
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    The place reeked of dust and mildew—a big contrast to the pleasant smells outside.  (source)
    contrast = something notably different compared (to something)
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    She was wearing an understated floral hat, in a pastel color, that contrasted with the white of her hair.  (source)
    contrasted = differed notably in brightness or tone
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    As Atticus's fists went to his hips, so did Jem's, and as they faced each other I could see little resemblance between them: Jem's soft brown hair and eyes, his oval face and snug-fitting ears were our mother's, contrasting oddly with Atticus's graying black hair and square-cut features, but they were somehow alike.  (source)
    contrasting = drawing attention to an unmissable difference when seen side-by-side
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    She wears a bright yellow coat, buttoned to the throat, which contrasts with the dark gray overcast sky above.  (source)
    contrasts = differs notably (in brightness or tone)
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    The chill Westerberg sensed between Alex and his parents stood in marked contrast to the warmth McCandless exhibited in Carthage.  (source)
    contrast = difference
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    The sun was beginning its slow descent, and as I pulled out, the sky was a swirl of fruity colors that contrasted dramatically with the evening skies I'd come to know in Germany.  (source)
    contrasted = differed
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    Warm light still spilled out of it, contrasting with the oily darkness of the shaft below.  (source)
    contrasting = differing
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    Stimulated by the sights and smells, you realise that you have arrived in a land of contrasts.  (source)
    contrasts = side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable differences
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    In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now.  (source)
    contrast = difference
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    He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life, the poverty of which contrasted with the elegance of the ball dress.  (source)
    contrasted = was notably different
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contrast as in:  sharpen the picture contrast

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She increased the video's contrast by making dark pixels darker and light pixels lighter.
contrast = the difference between tones of an image
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    Some technical definitions of contrast consider intensity of color. Other definitions consider only black and white.
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    We increased the photo's contrast, so we can better see minor detail.
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    Cedric flips the knob, adjusts the contrast, and fools with a mysterious red button, but all he can get are shadow images of the soulful Sisters With Voices, or SWV, mugging on MTV.  (source)
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    He cropped out the sticker and adjusted the contrast and sharpness.  (source)
    contrast = difference between tones of an image
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    The late afternoon light came in through the curtains and made his face a study in contrasts.  (source)
    contrasts = differences in shading
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    The picture was beautiful, however, the composition perfect. ... In the last few months, though, it had started to look kind of eerie to me. Like I couldn't just see the fine white-on-black contrast, or the way our features repeated themselves, in different measure but always similar, across our faces. Instead, when I studied it, I saw other things.  (source)
    contrast = the difference between tones of an image
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    ...a series of photos of a human vein, taken in sequence, in gradations of precisely controlled light, the level of contrast changing subtly with each one.  (source)
    contrast = difference between tones of an image
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    As beams of light tinted the clouds with blazing colors, everything gained a sharp contrast: brightly lit on one side, deeply shadowed on the other.  (source)
    contrast = difference (in brightness or tones)
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    Blomkvist edited a series of pictures in which he cropped the top half of Harriet and processed them to achieve the best contrast.  (source)
    contrast = difference between tones of an image
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    Mikael cropped the image to include the window alone, and then he experimented with adjusting the contrast and increasing the sharpness until he achieved what he thought was the best quality he could get.  (source)
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