How to Use contradiction in a Sentence

contradiction

noun

• There have been some contradictions in his statements.
• There is a contradiction between what he said yesterday and what he said today.
• What he said yesterday is in direct contradiction to what he said today.
• Her statements are mired in contradiction.
• No one was surprised by the defendant's contradiction of the plaintiff's accusations.
• Her rebuttal contained many contradictions to my arguments.
• The contradiction of our pairing never ceased to thrill me.
  — Logan Scherer, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2022
• And the show itself seems to exist within that contradiction.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• There’s always going to be that struggle, that contradiction.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
• But for Smith, this highlights a broader contradiction.
  — Hannah Peart, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
• Good emerging from bad and bad emerging from good — that's the contradiction of Bill Cosby.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Journalism faces an apparent contradiction that afflicts it all the way to its innermost core.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2021
• This contradiction in market dynamics should raise questions.
  — Julie Elberfeld, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
• This, too, is a kind of useful contradiction: the simultaneous knowledge that your days may be numbered, but your future is unwritten.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2022
• And Monica, to me, was always that ultimate contradiction.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• One contradiction is highlighted by Anjali, the lawyer representing Meena.
  — Anri Wheeler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Which is just one more of the many contradictions at the heart of Freedom Bowls.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
• The irony of this contradiction is not lost on Schinckus.
  — Alexander Lee, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
• The contradiction led to calls for the government to extend the EPG.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• In the 1960s, the country was living in a contradiction.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
• The catch, of course, is in the PGA Tour’s ultimate contradiction.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• Meat can be ham, meat can be kosher, but kosher ham is a contradiction.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• There's a humor about that; there's an irony and a contradiction about that.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• He was said to have been troubled by the contradiction.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2022
• And that contradiction isn’t just present in projects coming out of Africa.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• The grouping will have to manage these tensions and contradictions in the years ahead.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
• At the root of the contradictions are difficult choices that haven’t been made.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The document is not a contradiction of faith and morals.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
• Add pink blooms to your Halloween wreath for an eerie contradiction between the severe black and the bright shade.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2022
• Fiennes talks with correspondent Martha Teichner about the draw of playing characters with contradictions, and the thrill of finding a new role.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024