How to Use dichotomy in a Sentence

dichotomy

noun

• Her essay discusses the dichotomy between good and evil in the author's novels.
• It’s the dichotomy of what is shown to Wall Street and to the tax man.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The film will hone in on the dichotomy of fame — to be seen by all but known by none.
  — Emily Maskell, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
• Well, this is the kind of strange dichotomy of how it’s turned out.
  — Time, 6 Nov. 2022
• As far as she is concerned, the dichotomy between the stage and the page is a false one.
  — Mariah Tauger, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
• The art-and-craft dichotomy is just one of Raja’s themes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Oct. 2019
• Swift isn't the first pop singer to call out this troubling dichotomy.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2019
• Elliott does nothing to tone down the butch-femme dichotomy in the work.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
• The dichotomy of long versus short hair is tricky in the summer.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 25 May 2021
• The constant switching and dichotomies gave me more than just something to write about.
  — Fresh U, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
• This guy’s been a major league starter, but with that there’s a little bit of a dichotomy.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
• When a body is reduced, all at once, to a crude dichotomy of hot and cold, what happens to your soul?
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
• That dichotomy is at the heart of Loretta Lynn’s legacy.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2022
• That dichotomy, played for laughs, points to serious blind spots in his view of life.
  — Orange County Register, 5 Apr. 2017
• And this dichotomy is the main reason for the near-unrivalled wonder of this game.
  — SI.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• That dichotomy changed less than two minutes into the second half when Garcia found the back of the net.
  — Peter Warren, Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Of course, every good doctor can code-switch to some degree, and today the old dichotomies break down.
  — Laura Kolbe, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• But one of the biggest drugmakers may have set iself up for that kind of dichotomy.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 July 2022
• The truth, of course, is that the soccer/football dichotomy is really quite a new thing.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Beyond the box score, the matchup cast light on the intriguing dichotomy between their games.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Has any creature borne the burden of this historic dichotomy as long and painfully as the horse?
  — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• Such is the dichotomy of Mateo, who was the Orioles’ best hitter in April and one of baseball’s worst since.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2023
• Like the city itself, the building was a dichotomy: inscrutable and hard on the outside, but warm and open within.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Labored scenes carry an urgency and point to the dichotomy of the era.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
• There’s a big dichotomy between the amount of work available for gig workers.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 24 Mar. 2020
• Does the world always have to end up being placed into such a dichotomy?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• No, because the crazy dichotomy is Nolan is not about control.
  — Vulture, 25 July 2023
• In the article—and, later, in a best-selling book of the same name—Haidt and Lukianoff posited a dichotomy.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2020
• Romance and restraint is the central dichotomy at play in Burton’s work.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2024
• For Hernandez, this dichotomy is best played out in a bed, incorporating elements of the earth.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024