poles apart
Example Sentences
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And, when they do talk, their negotiating styles are poles apart.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Halberstam, in a phone interview, described being filmed by Pendleton as a kind of adventure, an intimate process poles apart from conventional documentary.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
“We were poles apart tonight . . . the quality of their kicking game, the quality of their skill-set, we just really battled to deal with.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2020
The two letters, each as wide as the poles apart in spirit and in intention, met in the post-box, and were each carried as rapidly as mail trains could take them to the metropolis.
From Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade
