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.
• And that contradiction isn’t just present in projects coming out of Africa.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• So is the state engaged in a multi-billion dollar contradiction here?
  — Grace Gedye, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• There’s a contradiction at the heart of China’s foreign policy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• Today’s world is filled with deeply nuanced problems, competing tensions and contradictions at every turn.
  — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• The contradiction is a dilemma that the Biden administration will have to address.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022
• This is a time charged with the contradictions inherent in the end of the calendar—cozy and eerie, Thanksgiving and Halloween, harvest and decay.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
• While the discipline may seem like a contradiction to many onlookers, fellow Republicans defend it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• The movie squarely stares down its central contradiction: that the service provides catharsis while preventing people from actually moving on.
  — Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
• In Benne’s hands, these themes are never mere archetypes but part of flesh-and-blood characters full of ambivalence and contradiction, with great love for one another but also great frustration.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• The move to have internal Republican staff draw a map without Democratic input is in direct contradiction with that ruling.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• 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
• In the 1960s, the country was living in a contradiction.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• How to handle the contradiction is a challenge to every one of us.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024