How to Use juxtaposed in a Sentence

juxtaposed

adjective

• The end of the week brought a pair of juxtaposed market reports to light.
  — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• And this week, the stock is trending for a pair of juxtaposed reasons.
  — Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• The clip showed two juxtaposed videos of a huge explosion in an urban area.
  — Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2022
• The grainy black-and-white visuals paired with retro duds send viewers into a juxtaposed blast to the past.
  — Abby Jones, Billboard, 1 May 2018
• The couple's dining room table has a raw, earthy look juxtaposed with not-so-earthy acrylic chairs around it.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Scenes that are packed with multiple events felt more sharply juxtaposed.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 13 May 2018
• Cheek by Jowl London is full of juxtaposed social groups.
  — Charlotte Ryan, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017
• Lamar's single song is a juxtaposed collection of ideas, moods, personas, and styles.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
• Cyclists were a recurring theme — Mr. Sempé liked to bike — as were the juxtaposed scenes of lone figures amid huge backdrops.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• There are false endings, neurotic song changes, juxtaposed melodies and rhythms.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 13 June 2017
• Perhaps these juxtaposed terms do not have to refer only to Robert Frost’s famous poem.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 3 Dec. 2019
• The song delivers a catchy chorus juxtaposed with heartbreaking lyrics that present a time when Boucher was struggling.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2017
• Benítez de Rodríguez goes about her days now under a strange, juxtaposed life — living in a hotel full of beautiful amenities, and feeling trapped there.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
• With its use of a sleazy master of ceremonies (portrayed by Joel Grey), the musical juxtaposed its raunchy nightclub numbers with the stories of people living in Berlin as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2019
• Ediger juxtaposed fabrics and textures to lend each room a casual yet refined feel.
  — Kari Costas, ELLE Decor, 25 Feb. 2016
• In the following decades, Mr. Posen has turned to making more abstract paintings as well as taking photographs and exhibiting them as juxtaposed pairs.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2018
• The pastel beach feel was juxtaposed by masculine military jackets, berets and combat boots — but the flamboyant floral sprigs were still present.
  — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• This surreal universe, juxtaposed and paired with the realism of the video clips, will resurface at strategic moments, threaded between storytelling scenes and again at play’s end.
  — Patti Restivo, Howard County Times, 14 June 2018
• Her characteristic form is the still life, a study of juxtaposed shapes and colors, almost always unpeopled.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Gervais’s roast was unafraid to and with each new joke came another set of juxtaposed laughter with total outright discomfort from the audience.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Jan. 2020
• Because of their isolated nature, the storms that developed Saturday and Sunday were made more photogenic juxtaposed to clear blue sky and sunshine.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• As with all reality TV, that editing was deliberate; throughout the episode, scenes were chosen and juxtaposed to tell a very specific story.
  — Anna Menta, Cosmopolitan, 17 Aug. 2017
• And in 2005, Chanel was the subject of a Costume Institute exhibition that juxtaposed period pieces with Lagerfeld’s creations.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
• Could it have been achieved without the agonizing birth scene (in which Alice’s labor pain is juxtaposed, mystifyingly, with Phil’s orgasm)?
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• In theory, the juxtaposed inscriptions should’ve been easy to decipher, as scholars at the time knew ancient Greek and could therefore piece together the hieroglyphic translation based on the Greek message.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
• Black-and-white and color images, saturated with the reds and blues of Haiti’s national flag, are juxtaposed, creating intriguing visual dialogues and rhymes.
  — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New York Review of Books, 2 June 2018
• Though fans have no problem watching themselves on a screen that is also showing an instructor, more sensitive users (guilty) find seeing their reflection juxtaposed on top of a trainer quite jarring.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• Olsen matched the collective’s swirling, synth-heavy expanses with juxtaposed phrasing, unexpected shifts and deep-seated feeling.
  — Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Crisp images of the front row of the theater, juxtaposed with smoky backdrops and ghostly lighting, make the audience appear on the same level as the performer, creating unusually striking images for stand-up comedy.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• Tom’s experiences in an alien culture and Ally’s travails in England are juxtaposed, allowing the reader to join them on their separate quests even as their nascent marriage is shaped by their separate concerns.
  — Min Jin Lee, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017

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