poles apart
Example Sentences
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"Both, poles apart in genre, did great business," he said.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
Things have changed considerably and today's teams are poles apart in terms of depth and experience.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2024
Avocados are “perceived as something healthy, and the contrast to what it is actually doing” to the environment and society, “you couldn’t get further, it’s poles apart, it’s absolutely not,” McMahon said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022
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
The two letters, each as wide as the poles apart in spirit and in intention, met in the post-box, and were each carried as rapidly as mail trains could take them to the metropolis.
From Daddy's Girl by Meade, L. T.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.