Sample Sentences for
dissonant
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    The debate grew tense as their dissonant views clashed over every issue.
    dissonantly = conflicting
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    It bounced off the ant's forehead with a dissonant twang.  (source)
    dissonant = harsh or clashing
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    For a while, I just close my eyes and listen, mesmerized by the beauty of the song. Then something begins to disrupt the music. ... Dissonant notes intersperse with the melody.  (source)
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    His head was bursting with a thousand dissonant impulses as he prayed for the bombs to drop.  (source)
    dissonant = conflicting
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    At any rate, the sight of any other youth thus romantically engaged with his girl was sufficient to set dissonantly jangling the repressed and protesting libido of his nature.†  (source)
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    At Magee, they did a wonderful job of simultaneously communicating two dissonant things.  (source)
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    The Citroën navigated the chaos with authority, its dissonant two-tone siren parting the traffic like a knife.  (source)
    dissonant = harsh or clashing
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    They met the Dissonant Toad, which could imitate human speech in a gravelly voice.†  (source)
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    We walk down a flight of narrow stairs where the echo of our footsteps layers over itself, dissonant and hollow.†  (source)
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    From another came a dissonant piping that made the dragon lash his tail wildly from side to side.†  (source)
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    Would it not be, like living one's life over again, infinitely painful and dissonant?†  (source)
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    Only the organ continued playing, the dissonant notes dark and haunting.†  (source)
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    To Charles Jr. No longer the bubblegum boy of yore but a failed preppy now, slant-bodied and dissonant, with dumdum eyes and a way of hating you from a distance.†  (source)
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