How to Use dichotomy in a Sentence

dichotomy

noun

• Her essay discusses the dichotomy between good and evil in the author's novels.
• The dichotomy is most evident in the two reception rooms on the first floor.
  — Joelle Diderich, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
• That dichotomy is probably the secret to the success of me being able to put so much of myself out there.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 18 June 2018
• Indeed, dichotomies define her work, which was both exotic and stylish, and pure and baroque—a perfect fusion of force and finesse.
  — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 15 June 2018
• That dichotomy would serve him well throughout the decade Smashing Pumpkins helped define.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 13 July 2018
• The messages arrive daily, reminding the family of its new dichotomy.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 26 June 2018
• In the intervening years, the Felix dichotomy has grown wider and wider, encompassing more and more goalkeepers.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• But the underlying dichotomy of US policy goals in Europe has a familiar ring.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
• The dichotomy raises the unique challenge of figuring out how to manage our diet in an environment that has shifted, relatively abruptly, from scarcity to abundance.
  — Nick Heil, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• 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 dichotomies of her current life are, frankly, pretty weird.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Which really, speaks to the whole dichotomy of his bar menu.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
• 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
• The dichotomy between the pursuit of interests and the pursuit of values—or between a particular nation-state’s advantage and the global good—has been part of this unending evolution.
  — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025