How to Use obverse in a Sentence

obverse

noun

• We thought they would be pleased with our decision. We have learned, however, that the obverse is true.
• The rule of raw power is the obverse of the rule of law.
  — WSJ, 23 May 2018
• In many ways, Mr. Davis, 72, is the obverse of Mr. Courtney.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• In the case of your token, the obverse would have been made with the Sam Houston design, with the backs left blank to be cast with the buyer’s choice.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
• The betting, of course, is that the probability of such a turn of events is deemed to be much lower than the obverse.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• As required by law, the new quarters will keep George Washington’s likeness on the obverse, or heads side, of the coins.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• The trite but Twitter-ready condition—must love dogs—stretched the challenge by choosing an image of a Shiba Inu, the most cat-like of pooches, for the coin’s obverse.
  — David Lavie, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
• On the obverse of each coin was a stylized profile of either Alfred or Ceolwulf.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• As is now the case, the likeness of George Washington will appear on the obverse, or head, side of the quarter, and a design focused on each woman will be on the reverse side.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
• If the commonwealth’s argument was that each defendant shared in a collective guilt, the defense case was the obverse: that this was a tragedy of the commons.
  — Benjamin Wallace, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• With their pea protein isolates, their gum arabic and yeast extracts, these new foods are the opposite of whole foods, the obverse of transparent sourcing.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Hot-air balloons are the obverse of modern aeronautical advances, the beautiful black sheep to the success story of the airplane.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• First minted in 1907, the coin features an image of Lady Liberty striding forward on its obverse and an eagle in flight on its reverse.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
• Rental apologies, the obverse of rental scoldings, can be particularly thorny.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• The obverse of such a strategy is the taking of a position when political advantage, and not principle, beckons.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2021
• The obverse of bullying the vulnerable is protecting them, and Donald Trump has inherited a world where an awful lot of people need protecting.
  — Sebastian Junger, The Hive, 25 Apr. 2017
• But the conviction that the truth must be mathematically elegant can easily lead to a false obverse: that what is mathematically elegant must be true.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
• This strategy is the obverse of the investment strategy known as dollar-cost averaging—buying shares at regular intervals.
  — M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
• We thought they would be pleased with our decision. We have learned, however, that the obverse is true.
• The rule of raw power is the obverse of the rule of law.
  — WSJ, 23 May 2018
• In many ways, Mr. Davis, 72, is the obverse of Mr. Courtney.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• In the case of your token, the obverse would have been made with the Sam Houston design, with the backs left blank to be cast with the buyer’s choice.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
• The betting, of course, is that the probability of such a turn of events is deemed to be much lower than the obverse.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• As required by law, the new quarters will keep George Washington’s likeness on the obverse, or heads side, of the coins.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• The trite but Twitter-ready condition—must love dogs—stretched the challenge by choosing an image of a Shiba Inu, the most cat-like of pooches, for the coin’s obverse.
  — David Lavie, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
• On the obverse of each coin was a stylized profile of either Alfred or Ceolwulf.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• As is now the case, the likeness of George Washington will appear on the obverse, or head, side of the quarter, and a design focused on each woman will be on the reverse side.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
• If the commonwealth’s argument was that each defendant shared in a collective guilt, the defense case was the obverse: that this was a tragedy of the commons.
  — Benjamin Wallace, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• With their pea protein isolates, their gum arabic and yeast extracts, these new foods are the opposite of whole foods, the obverse of transparent sourcing.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• Hot-air balloons are the obverse of modern aeronautical advances, the beautiful black sheep to the success story of the airplane.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019

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