juxtapose
Example Sentences
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Though she’s skilled at painting and photography, she’s most widely known for assemblage, the art of juxtaposing miscellaneous items to form a single cohesive work.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Farris juxtaposes the pursuit of her caregivers—who are trying to hold on to some semblance of adult life as best they can—with the general chaos that accompanies child-raising.
The campaign juxtaposes such wild, clearly AI-created images with real photography of fit people under the theme “Question Everything But Yourself.”
Piller juxtaposes opals, garnets and pearls with less conventional materials such as tile fragments, snakeskin, bits of lava from a trip to Iceland, and bullet casings, all bound together with strips of leather or vinyl.
From Los Angeles Times
The effect of the metanarrative is to juxtapose Byron’s violent passions with the careful, repressed behavior of one who hoped to capture him in literature.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
