contrastive

Example Sentences

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Elements that might be contrastive, arabesques versus body rolls, are all delivered unemphatically, on the same level — each snowflake registering before it merges with the water.

From New York Times

The two women, mostly onstage together, occupy the zones separately, their contrastive presences balanced: Ms. Beiser hot and more sedentary, Ms. Whelan cool but mobile.

From New York Times

We’re not out in the city, that contrastive and conspicuous silence seems to say; we’re in the more rarefied realm of the dance.

From New York Times

The group with contrastive analysis not only discovered something about English.

From Economist

Among them is contrastive analysis, an approach in which students diagram spoken sentences and compare them to formal written English.

From Washington Times