How to Use contradiction in a Sentence

contradiction

noun

• There have been some contradictions in his statements.
• There is a contradiction between what he said yesterday and what he said today.
• What he said yesterday is in direct contradiction to what he said today.
• Her statements are mired in contradiction.
• No one was surprised by the defendant's contradiction of the plaintiff's accusations.
• Her rebuttal contained many contradictions to my arguments.
• That cuts to the heart of one of the many contradictions in Trump’s movement.
  — Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• Which is just one more of the many contradictions at the heart of Freedom Bowls.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
• The irony of this contradiction is not lost on Schinckus.
  — Alexander Lee, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2022
• The contradiction led to calls for the government to extend the EPG.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• This feels like a contradiction, and one that is very telling for me.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• In the 1960s, the country was living in a contradiction.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
• But the problem is that there is a contradiction at the heart of this crisis.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• At first blush, that might sound like a contradiction, but think about it.
  — Tyler Lessard, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• The catch, of course, is in the PGA Tour’s ultimate contradiction.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• Meat can be ham, meat can be kosher, but kosher ham is a contradiction.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• There's a humor about that; there's an irony and a contradiction about that.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• He was said to have been troubled by the contradiction.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Despite the prince’s change of heart, the finale doesn’t quite work out that contradiction.
  — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
• And that contradiction isn’t just present in projects coming out of Africa.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• Seif seemed not to see the contradiction between his two selves.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• There is, to be fair, a telling contradiction present in the scenes that played out at Old Trafford on Sunday.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 May 2021
• The grouping will have to manage these tensions and contradictions in the years ahead.
  — Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 24 Sep. 2024
• At the root of the contradictions are difficult choices that haven’t been made.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The document is not a contradiction of faith and morals.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
• Add pink blooms to your Halloween wreath for an eerie contradiction between the severe black and the bright shade.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2022
• Like most teenagers, Lux is a contradiction, at once cool and anxious.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
• Like most teenagers, Lux is a contradiction, at once cool and anxious.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• But the variety and contradiction of the trivia provide its own kind of argument.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
• This contradiction has long been a defining part of Western identity.
  — Hazlitt, 27 Feb. 2025