How to Use opposite in a Sentence

opposite

1 of 4 adjective

• The two boys lived on opposite sides of the street.
• Fold the bottom right corner of the paper over to the opposite corner.
• They represent opposite sides of the issue.
• The two scientists had the same information but reached opposite conclusions.
• They ran in opposite directions.
• At the same time, bring the opposite arm across the body.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Jan. 2024
• Then tie up a line to the center of the opposite side of the tarp.
  — Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• Just align the piece with a hole on the opposite end of the board, and you'll be set.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 12 Sep. 2018
• Scan your phone across the frame and tap the opposite end.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• How does the shrapnel from this hit me on the opposite side of the head?
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 15 May 2018
• Sandy Smith: There was Alex and Randy standin' on the opposite side of the road.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• Be sure to flip the item and repeat on the opposite side.
  — Sarah Ball, PEOPLE.com, 14 May 2020
• Get to know some of those on the opposite sides of the age spectrum.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
• That should help clear a path to the quarterback for the opposite side of the field.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 23 Mar. 2021
• On the opposite side of the road, wooden stakes fence the border.
  — Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
• Two plays were run on one end of the field and then the teams switched to the opposite end for the next session.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2021
• But on the opposite side, there are guys that have failed.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2019
• Trump was very much on the opposite end of the spectrum.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
• Your back heel is close to the opposite side with the toes pointing out.
  — Tovin Lapan, SFChronicle.com, 14 May 2020
• Then place one of the blades, flat-side down, on one end of the stone and gently drag it to the opposite end.
  — Bon Appétit, 16 Mar. 2022
• Make a small knot in the one end of your thread, and thread the opposite end through your needle.
  — Beka Garris, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2020
• How to Do It: Balance on one leg with the opposite leg held up in front of the body.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• Then, pick up the hand on the opposite side of the bag and reach underneath your body.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020
• The truth-teller and the liar play on opposite sides of the same game, as Frankfurt puts it.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• On the opposite end of the room, three arched doorways lead to a dining area.
  — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 31 Dec. 2020
• It’s like a tuxedo with black and white on the jacket and opposite black and white on the pants.
  — Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• On opposite sides of the courtroom, two mothers cried over the loss of a son.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• Do the same with second egg, adding to opposite side of pan.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
• Rest one hand on a flat bench and row with your opposite hand.
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023
• Turn the duck breast around and score in the opposite direction.
  — Talia Abbas, SELF, 6 Dec. 2018

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opposite

2 of 4 noun

• The terms “black” and “white” are opposites.
• Quite the opposite: The work to be done is hard and long-term.
  — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
• And last year was one of those that was kind of the opposite.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2023
• All of this was the opposite of what the blockchain was supposed to be.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• But then, of course, the rewrite process is the opposite of that.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2018
• To me, then and now, this is the opposite of being a waif.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 6 Mar. 2018
• My wife feels just the opposite, and will not tell them.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
• But the opposite happened in the case of DeKalb and Decatur.
  — Chris Hacker, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Fruit is the opposite of cake, and never the twain shall mix.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• The look is the opposite of the styles that Perry has shown us so far this year.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 May 2019
• For Gilbert, the night was in some ways the opposite of his debut.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 20 Aug. 2021
• Meanwhile, in the rest of the country, the dry season is the opposite.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
• The opposite will be true if Trump comes in with less than 50%.
  — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
• But this isn’t always true, and, in fact, the truth is more like the opposite.
  — Michael Johnston, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
• Yet quite the opposite came to pass, even amid the omicron surge.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
• To move backward, do the opposite, but bend your legs at the knees.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2019
• That was the opposite of what this show was going to be.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• Do the same with a farmers market, and the opposite is true.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 29 Aug. 2023
• So that song is sort of the opposite of rocking in hell.
  — Tom Lanham, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
• Those who have done the math have, indeed, found the opposite.
  — David M. Simon, National Review, 24 Feb. 2023
• The opposite is true for La Niña, when the ocean’s sub-surface cools.
  — Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2023
• In fact, quite the opposite — this pair of hues is glamorous and bold any time of year.
  — Kami Phillips, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Gotta have opposites, dark and light, light and dark in a painting.
  — Julia Lyon, Washington Post, 13 July 2018
• On the other hand, some who tried the drink posted quite the opposite.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2022
• The message in this book, and so many others like it, was the opposite.
  — Meaghan O'Connell, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• The temperature that day was the opposite of the temps at the Chiefs Wild Card game.
  — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• What happens most of the time in real life is the opposite.
  — Csaba Toth, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• And then her protege is the one that takes her down, as opposed to the opposite.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 June 2023
• In fact, some of the actions of teams and players were the opposite of thoughtful.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• And when the rising sun headed back north, the opposite was true.
  — Steven Austad, AL.com, 28 Apr. 2018

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opposite

3 of 4 adverb

• I sat down and he sat opposite.
• That was one of the great things to play opposite [of] Jason Segel and Adrien Brody.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 27 Mar. 2022
• To work opposite of those queens was just a dream come true.
  — Robyn Mowatt, ELLE, 22 June 2023
• Dig your elbow into the floor, opposite to the leg that is on the foam roller.
  — Jon-Erik Kawamoto, Outside Online, 23 Mar. 2021
• Ms. Cook had her come over to her and asked her to sit opposite, so their knees could touch.
  — Ed Stockly, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• The iPhone’s camera, staged opposite to the funnel, captured the show.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 12 Aug. 2020
• On the walls opposite, at the same size and the same height, was a circle with the pre-Hispanic symbols.
  — Fernanda Pesce, ajc, 7 Oct. 2022
• There is no way that a group of people that thinks opposite of that could fill up a space like that.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2022
• In many cases, the exact opposite turned out to be true.
  — Tom Nunan, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• There’s an Edward Albee play in the hazy past and a one-act opposite Zosia Mamet.
  — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• It’s morning, and the smell of cardamom drifts over from the bakery opposite.
  — Johanna Ekström, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
• Yeoh starred opposite Pierce Brosnan and went toe-to-toe with 007.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 May 2022
• She’s like Phoebe from Friends but the freaking opposite!
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• Flex the leg opposite to the hand holding the anchor point, to where there in a 90 degree bend in your hip, knee, and ankle.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• Jadevon Clowney is signed and sealed for the Browns’ pass rush opposite Myles Garrett.
  — Matt Goul, cleveland, 15 Apr. 2021
• The chair opposite is covered in the same fabric that filled her childhood home.
  — Anna Logan, House Beautiful, 7 May 2021
• But The Times’s review shows that the officers did the exact opposite, over and over.
  — Natalie Reneau, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
• The Rams also signed linebacker Clay Matthews to start opposite Fowler.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• The men stand opposite in Levi’s jeans, Pendleton vests, bowler hats and bolo ties.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Green lives opposite from red on the color wheel, so the former cancels out the latter.
  — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2018
• Both teams’ fans sat in bleachers opposite of the Crenshaw press box.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• In that great front gallery of the chateau overlooking the gardens, the long back wall of mirrors reflects the views through the windows opposite.
  — Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2016
• The building opposite has a little round window in its mansard roof, and sometimes the face of a small girl appears there.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• This was, if not the exact opposite, then not quite as straightforward as that.
  — Anne Lagamayo, CNN, 26 July 2021
• As an adult, Todd vowed to be his father’s opposite, to share his love for his closest friends and his children.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• She was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope down the south side (opposite from climbing route) of the mountain over 5000’.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• The transfer box, therefore, takes the drive to the front directly from the epicyclic gearset, while the drive to the rear is through a Morse chain—an arrangement opposite to the Sierra's.
  — Ray Hutton, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• That means someone else will have to step in to the right cornerback spot opposite Sherman.
  — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• The Saints desperately need someone to stretch the field opposite of Michael Thomas.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
• She was swept off her feet and carried down a narrow snow slope down the south side (opposite from climbing route) of the mountain over 5,000 feet.
  — Dewan Rai, Outside Online, 28 Sep. 2022

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opposite

4 of 4 preposition

• The school is opposite a park.
• I played opposite the best player in the league.
• She lives in the house opposite ours.
• She stars opposite Clint Eastwood in her latest movie.
• Put the pork on the grill on the side opposite the fire.
  — Marian Bull, GQ, 27 June 2018
• That’s the size of the scope’s bell—the end opposite the eyepiece—and the bigger the number, the bigger the bell.
  — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• They are located at the top of the cabins on the two long sides and on the wall opposite of the door.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Jalen Mills will start, though the spot opposite him is up for grabs.
  — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• First, prune off the small branch opposite the wound, and the other small limb just above it.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• In the tea room, her glance meets the eyes of a woman seating opposite her.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• The three 500-square-foot huts rest on the lake’s western shore, opposite the cliff.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Nov. 2021
• In the course of it, the Israelis fired a missile at the building opposite my wife’s house.
  — National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2017
• The kids have moved all the desks from the classrooms into the yard, opposite the soccer field.
  — Caterina Clerici & Eléonore Hamelin, Marie Claire, 1 Feb. 2019
• Secure the next 10 strands and weave them opposite the first group.
  — Lacey Howard, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2020
• The sand would be put on a barge by Bar Beach opposite the harbor.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
• The moon is opposite Mars Mars rules our will and actions and the moon rules our emotions.
  — Emily Newhouse, Allure, 22 Nov. 2023
• Part your hair to one side and bring the rest of it over your shoulder, opposite the side of your hair part.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
• On the narrow side of two legs, mark 12 inches from the end opposite the holes.
  — Robert and Marigold Moritz, Popular Mechanics, 22 May 2021
• Moore would be a nice fit opposite a healthy Michael Thomas.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• Using the fat part of your palm, smack the bottom tin opposite the tightest part of the seal.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
• After two hours, a red-and-green macaw perched on a tree opposite us.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Instead, Paige Bueckers will be the star on the court opposite Clark.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
• Noah had been sitting on the side of the bus opposite the impact, and was unscathed.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 4 Nov. 2017
• And out strode the real-life Warwick, who sat down in a chair opposite her.
  — Dave Itzkoff, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• For a carefree finish, pull a few strands free on the side opposite the braid.
  — Seventeen, 5 June 2012
• The dining room has one wooden wall and a tile wall opposite it.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• The only light is this lamp opposite her door, where now the police begin to stack.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
• Many stand at river’s edge opposite the falls and let its cool mist wash over them.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 15 Mar. 2020
• Depp plays the king and stars opposite French actress Maïwenn, who directs.
  — Joy Ashford, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• Be sure to check the fridge opposite the bar for bottles that are available to go or for drinking on site.
  — John Verive, latimes.com, 4 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024