Example Sentences

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I am contrasting this broad overgeneralization to the reality of the woman that I was falling in love with, okay?

From The Verge • May 12, 2021

I am no longer comparing the Anglo-American States to foreign nations; but I am contrasting them with each other, and endeavoring to discover why they are so unlike.

From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Reeves, Henry

I am no longer comparing the Anglo-American states to foreign nations; but I am contrasting them with each other, and endeavoring to discover why they are so unlike.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

I am contrasting two languages with each other: yet their names are as like as Gallic and Gaelic.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

It must be borne in mind, that, in thus speaking, I am contrasting with each other the simple and the reflex assent, which together make up the complex act of certitude.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry