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How to use juxtaposition in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Juxtaposition means the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter. Example: “There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.”

Examples of juxtaposition by meaning

nounAn absence of operators in an expression.

  • A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition.2007, Lawrence Moss, Hans-Jörg Tiede, “Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics”, in P. Blackburn et al., editors, Handbook of Modal...

nounThe extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.

  • There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.

nounTwo or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.

  • The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.

More sentences with juxtaposition

  • The juxtaposition of his literary and letterly writing is revealing of both canons.2014, James G. Watson, William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions. From the entry letterly
  • By their juxtaposition with perfectly colloquial idioms, these words present the erroneous appearance of neologism.2003, Alan Singer, Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, University Park, P.A.: The Pennsylvania State University Press…. From the entry pseudoneologism
  • The juxtaposition of the mask and the silenic face not only invites but also necessitates their complementary interpretation.2012, Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception, page 164. From the entry silenic
  • Typical for the menippea is syncrisis (that is, juxtaposition) of precisely such stripped-down "ultimate positions in the world."2004, David Sandner, Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry menippea
  • He reasoned that cabbeling would form a front at the juxtaposition of Warm Deep Water and Shelf Water.1934, Thomas North Whitehead, The Design and Use of Instruments and Accurate Mechanisms: Underlying Principles, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan…. From the entry cabbeling
  • The juxtaposition of the bawdy, cuckold stage humor with the entrance of the mortificating supplicants and the monk's bitter diatribe in The Seventh Seal.2004 February 8, Ellen Dossey [signed Mike], “Movie Moments”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet). From the entry mortificate
  • The knights of the Round Table and the douzepers were closely associated by virtue of the juxtaposition of Arthur and Charlemagne in the Nine Worthies.1962, “Notes”, in D[erek] A[lbert] Pearsall, editor, The Floure and the Leafe and The Assembly of Ladies (Old and Middle English Texts…. From the entry douzeper
  • Alien’s lasting impact can be attributed to its ingenious juxtaposition of beauty and horror; not just in how the audience perceives those things, but the crew.2024 October 30, Jalen Maki, “Movies You Gotta See: 45 years later, ‘Alien’ remains a titan of sci-fi horror”, in Green Bay Press Times…. From the entry compromise to a permanent end
  • It is the deliberate juxtaposition of multiple expressions of straight and swing time simultaneously, a conscious cultivation of rhythmic friction for maximum musicality and maximum surprise.2022, Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm, New York: MCD / Farrar…. From the entry Dilla time
  • This sort of juxtaposition, which suggested that under-development was inscribed in the process of conservative modernization in Brazil, would become a hallmark of tropicalist cultural production.2014, Christopher Dunn, Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. From the entry tropicalist
  • And he would have relished the juxtaposition of the wedding dress with the infamous bumster trousers that are, as of this week, on show in the Metropolitan Museum.2011 May 4, Jane Martinson, The Guardian. From the entry bumster
  • Flashy in its photographic juxtapositioning, Reebok embraced poor taste as a sign for antistyle that might beckon skeptical viewers to enter the space of the ad.1994, David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana, Postmodernism and social inquiry. From the entry antistyle
  • The ecology of networked media call for juxtapositions that suggest the rhizomatic connections between, for instance, intellectual property (IP) rights and viral media, or neo-liberalism and social network sites (SNS).2008, Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly, New Media: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry viral media
  • These juxtapositions of perspective are generally indicated typographically, by a verse being tabbed in or out from the one above it: such tabbings indicate breaks in time, space, or voice.2003, Stephen J. Hartnett, Incarceration Nation, page 23. From the entry tabbing

Meaning of juxtaposition

  1. noun The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
  2. noun An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
  3. noun An absence of operators in an expression.

Full definition of juxtaposition

Questions about juxtaposition in a sentence

How do you use juxtaposition in a sentence?
Juxtaposition is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.”
What is a short sentence with juxtaposition?
“The juxtaposition of his literary and letterly writing is revealing of both canons.”
What does juxtaposition mean?
Juxtaposition means the nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: juxtaposition (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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