How to Use contradict in a Sentence

contradict

verb

• He contradicted the charges of his critics.
• The mayor's actions in office contradicted the promises he made during the campaign.
• My sister doesn't like being contradicted.
• Not only did physicians contradict each other’s findings.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• But family members, friends and court documents contradict the parents' claim.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2022
• The study contradicts the common belief that higher wages would require workforce reductions.
  — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2024
• Beyond the shortcomings of the evidence, the case seemed to contradict clear provisions of Greek law.
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• The reports of fox attacks appear to contradict the species' typical behavior.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2022
• Establishing new categories of race and ethnicity may seem to contradict efforts to make medicine and health care equitable and free of racial bias.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
• Consumers prefer organizations that share their values and are very intolerant of statements that contradict those values.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• These statements, of course, seem to contradict the counsel that the models implicitly provide to stakeholders and policymakers.
  — Genevieve Guenther, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• The Kremlin’s response seemingly contradicts Trump’s denial of Woodward’s claims.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• His comments directly contradict statements made by former President Donald Trump days ago.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2022
• Mnuchin, though, did appear to contradict Trump in terms of the scope of the ZTE talks.
  — Damian Paletta and David J. Lynch, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• As a result, some of the events in the second book contradict the events in the first. .
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• But then so are the other people (in the play) who contradict him.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• By the time the credits roll, the movie has contradicted itself in the profoundest of ways.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• That opinion has not in the last two years been contradicted by any court.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2018
• But there are a few points that contradict the picture.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• Claims like these don’t contradict your account or put your sister in the right.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• Over the years, the government of Brazil has seemed to contradict itself on such questions.
  — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• But as Newport points out, Jobs’s own career contradicts the advice in the speech.
  — Scott Galloway, TIME, 15 July 2024
• As is often the case in these disputes, even the complaints seem to contradict each other.
  — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• Coach Kennedy’s own words contradict the idea that his act was private.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• Blake Pieroni is among Hoosiers trying to contradict that.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2021
• Their bottom halves contradict their posh outfits — a sweater vest for Camila and a three-piece suit on the top for Matthew.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 20 May 2024
• Court records in the document case contradict his claims.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
• That claim is contradicted by the video of his talk with detectives.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 5 June 2018
• Now Humm was confronted with a set of goals that seem to contradict each other.
  — WSJ, 3 May 2021
• Salem hosts are not free to voice opinions that contradict the network’s pro-Trump stance.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024