How to Use contradict in a Sentence

contradict

verb

• He contradicted the charges of his critics.
• The mayor's actions in office contradicted the promises he made during the campaign.
• My sister doesn't like being contradicted.
• Such conclusions contradict the old claims of Thoms and others that nature imposed a strict limit to lifetime.
  — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• Often, the systems of control in these films contradict and even exploit the values and norms the protagonists embrace.
  — Harry F. Dahms, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2024
• The clarity of McConnell's language, which is rare in a party afraid to contradict Trump, deserves credit.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
• Under the terms of the deal, the creators could not contradict anything Tolkien had written about the Second Age and had to follow the same broad narrative arc.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
• But many older billionaires have publicly hated crypto, only to contradict themselves with investments later.
  — Mahnoor Khan, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2022
• In 2016, Proctor’s attorney said Glenn was reaching for his partner’s gun, but footage from the scene contradicted that claim.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Today, most Republican voters believe the last election was stolen, and many of the party’s politicians either believe the same falsehoods or are afraid to contradict them.
  — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• Mnuchin, though, did appear to contradict Trump in terms of the scope of the ZTE talks.
  — Damian Paletta and David J. Lynch, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• As a result, some of the events in the second book contradict the events in the first. .
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• But then so are the other people (in the play) who contradict him.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• By the time the credits roll, the movie has contradicted itself in the profoundest of ways.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• That opinion has not in the last two years been contradicted by any court.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2018
• But there are a few points that contradict the picture.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• Claims like these don’t contradict your account or put your sister in the right.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• Over the years, the government of Brazil has seemed to contradict itself on such questions.
  — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• But as Newport points out, Jobs’s own career contradicts the advice in the speech.
  — Scott Galloway, TIME, 15 July 2024
• As is often the case in these disputes, even the complaints seem to contradict each other.
  — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• Coach Kennedy’s own words contradict the idea that his act was private.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• Blake Pieroni is among Hoosiers trying to contradict that.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2021
• Their bottom halves contradict their posh outfits — a sweater vest for Camila and a three-piece suit on the top for Matthew.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
• Court records in the document case contradict his claims.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
• That claim is contradicted by the video of his talk with detectives.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 5 June 2018
• Now Humm was confronted with a set of goals that seem to contradict each other.
  — WSJ, 3 May 2021
• Salem hosts are not free to voice opinions that contradict the network’s pro-Trump stance.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• Later in his speech, Brooks seemed to contradict his election fraud case.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 24 Jan. 2021
• That’s not the only move Iger has made that contradicts his previous stances.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
• How will consumers trust you if your brand’s actions contradict its words, or if the effort comes across as forced?
  — Philip Kushmaro, Forbes, 28 June 2021

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024