adversative

Example Sentences

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Companies that in the past had an adversative relationship with conservation groups have begun to take actions that are more than public relations.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are made to sympathize with his terrible anguish, as the logic of his remorse-throbbing conscience leads him to the bitter adversative: "But 'tis too late—all hope is past."

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

The adversative sentence faces, so to speak, half way about on but.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

They accordingly emphasize the adversative idea, and are properly Subordinate Adversative Clauses.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

But is termed the adversative coördinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.