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
I have read accounts by experts and scholars that are poles apart on these matters.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
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
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
