juxtapose
Example Sentences
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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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
I'd say, "Just put this rough stuff out and juxtapose it to some interesting images that you shoot on your cell phone."
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2024
She finds absurd photos on the internet to juxtapose with canonical paintings that happen to be similar.
From New York Times • May 2, 2024
In one of the videos, Rubinstein reads out a hate post — only to juxtapose it with his personal testimony about his family’s suffering during the Holocaust.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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