poles apart
Example Sentences
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"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
He thinks the story has caught people's attention because the two styles of music are "poles apart".
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2023
“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
They’re poles apart, and yet — ironically or outrageously — they’re profoundly similar, both in how they’re impacting their audiences, and why their genres emerged when they did.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2019
Then arose a literary controversy which showed chiefly that our critics were poles apart in their points of view.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph
