apposition

Example Sentences

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But other elements were recognizable, like the flat vowels and the plaid shirts and the helpful practicality, like the lonesomeness of the undifferentiated plains, like the apposition of wilderness and chain stores.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019

The united probe glows wherever two organelles come into close apposition.

From Nature • Mar. 10, 2019

In the most beautiful apposition of two of the simplest words in our language: the freedom of speech.”

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 16, 2011

He models and commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apposition—When the meaning of a noun or pronoun is made clear or emphatic by the use of another noun or pronoun the two are said to be in apposition, e. g.,

From Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)