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
Avocados are “perceived as something healthy, and the contrast to what it is actually doing” to the environment and society, “you couldn’t get further, it’s poles apart, it’s absolutely not,” McMahon said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
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
In character, in politics, in attainments, in capacity, the two were poles apart; but they were agreed in this: that Boswell must be castigated and contemned, and that they were the men to do it.
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest
