juxtapose

Example Sentences

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The effect of the metanarrative is to juxtapose Byron’s violent passions with the careful, repressed behavior of one who hoped to capture him in literature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

How do you juxtapose those two things, the play and the precision?

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2024

What I wanted to do was stay in that conversation and just juxtapose the material of metal with natural fabrics: a cotton shirt, leather jacket, leather pants.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024

To tame that wild child into a work of art, juxtapose it against a formal element, he advised.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole