How to Use polarity in a Sentence

polarity

noun

• Users adjust the polarity of the filter via a thumb wheel on the side of the ActionBox.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
• Smith wondered, though, about the rigidity of the us and them polarity in Get Out.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
• The question is whether the polarity is out of balance—too strong on the negative side of the equation.
  — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
• There is often a polarity between freedom and love when that doesn’t have to be the case.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Jan. 2022
• Blow the polarities right out of the water and return to the original spark that ignited your life force in the first place.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2018
• Scientists have found proof of that in very old rocks that still show signs of the magnetic polarity of their times.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2016
• The spots in the sun’s northern hemisphere have an opposite polarity to the spots in the southern hemisphere.
  — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
• Considering how much polarity there is in the country right now, the words seem to ring true.
  — Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2020
• The lunation doubles as a lunar eclipse in Pisces, the twelfth and last zodiac sign on the wheel and the polarity of Virgo.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
• Follow the stripes: Earth’s polarity switches back and forth over time.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• This has always been the polarity in space-travel films.
  — Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
• The average 16/17-year-old is so tightly wound with reversed polarities that the whole joint could blow at any time.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• In 2005 Christopher Nolan set out to reverse the polarity of culture.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 19 July 2019
• This polarity of the realist and the expressionist runs broadly through the genre and the show itself.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• The physical world is a world of polarity, of contrast.
  — Melanie Fine, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• But for all that happened in the first nine months of 1968, the Mexico City Games took the sports year to another level of triumph and polarity.
  — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
• The role play, designed to flip that polarity, has forced the white partners to look at color and see it deeply, even at the risk of mortification.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
• Seen on a seafloor map that shows this record, the periods of reversed and normal polarity appear as stripes.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
• But here, the polarity is reversed, the politics all warped.
  — Sam Schube, GQ, 16 June 2018
• All that was required was to thread the wires through the holes and carefully solder them into place (making sure to get the polarity correct!).
  — Roy Wood, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2013
• And that’s just what the parents are doing.‎ The Muschiettis have somehow taken those polarities and doubled down on them.
  — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The strength of the dipole governs a process that eventually flips the polarity of the magnetic field, which causes the solar cycle.
  — Javier Barbuzano, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• As all these sunspots form and fizzle, the tiny leftover charges gradually build up at the poles and cancel out their polarity.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
• The brain sends a signal to the electrocytes, opening ion channels and briefly reversing the polarity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
• Nevertheless, there is a tinge of anger that remains in Ray's voice about the state of the world at the moment, a world whose obvious polarity has become quite the burden for many.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The challenge of balancing polarities -- old and new, masculine and feminine, dark and light -- is at the core of their design sense.
  — OregonLive.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Recognizing the polarity present in these moments has been key for me.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
• The polarity is clear — customers want to make more money with their suppliers, with less effort.
  — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• There was a crazy polarity in terms of audience response.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 6 May 2023
• And so, probably, the polarity of our conversations about A.I. should be reversed.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024