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How to use contra in a sentence

11 example sentences · preposition, adverb, noun

Contra means against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to. Example: “The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.”

Examples of contra by meaning

nounAn entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).

  • a contra position; a contra entry
  • The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.

nounA country dance.

  • Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.2001, Ellen Koskoff, editor, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America, Garland Publishing, page 232

verbTo undo; to reverse.

  • to contra a position (an entry)

More sentences with contra

  • Contra Micawber, income has not always placed an absolute, binding limit on consumption.2012, Frank Trentmann, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption, OUP, page 35. From the entry Micawber principle
  • Contra Piaget, I argue that:(1) development rarely involves stagelike domain-general change.1997, Bonatti et al., "Precis of beyond modularity," Behavioral and Brain Science 20(2), 351-360. From the entry stagelike
  • My friend Ruth loves to contra dance and she met her fiancé Paul that way (two birds, one stone).2008, Nerissa Nields, “Exercise”, in How to Be an Adult: A Musician’s Guide to Navigating Your Twenties, Northampton, Mass.: Mercy House…. From the entry two birds, one stone
  • Whereas for the turning bias (contra- and ipsiversive turns) both drugs interacted according to an additive mode (non significant “Radiprodil x Tozadenant” statistical interaction).2015 September 1, “Behavioural Assessment of the A 2a /NR2B Combination in the Unilateral 6-OHDA-Lesioned Rat Model: A New Method to…. From the entry ipsiversive
  • Certainly parliamentary politics is indebted to the rhetorical culture of addressing issues from opposite views and debating the alternatives pro et contra.2014, Kari Palonen, José María Rosales, Tapani Turkka, “Introduction: The Parliamentary Politics of Dissensus”, in Kari Palonen, José…. From the entry dissensus
  • Moreover (contra conspiracy-theoretic paranoia), the financial or political knowledge of even those with the most questionable motives and the greatest power is finite.2000, Gary Brent Madison, Is There a Canadian Philosophy?, page 155. From the entry conspiracy-theoretic
  • Additionally, the CALM general ledger has no account comparable to the contra ( offset ) account maintained by private sector medical centers for contractuals and discounts.1991, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care, H.R. 4935 and DVA's…. From the entry contractual

Meaning of contra

  1. preposition Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
  2. adverb Contrary to something.
  3. noun A deal to swap goods or services.

Full definition of contra

Questions about contra in a sentence

How do you use contra in a sentence?
Contra is used as a preposition, adverb and noun. For example: “The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.”
What is a short sentence with contra?
“a contra position; a contra entry”
What does contra mean?
Contra means against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contra (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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