in juxtaposition
Example Sentences
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“He would say things that put things in juxtaposition because his mind just wandered in various ways.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
On the opposite wall in the basement of the museum, a portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is on display in juxtaposition.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025
It’s a triptych that at first seems slight, then gains meaning the longer you hold its three seemingly disconnected short films in juxtaposition and peer through the overlaps.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
The film is designed to allow that experience to understand the concept of silence where there is a lot of sound going on, that crackling proximity in juxtaposition with quiet.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2022
But specially is he delightful in juxtaposition with Nell, a little girl who says the quaintest things in the most laughable, most lovable manner.
From Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Drinkwater, Jennie M.
