102 examples of juxtaposition in sentences

Life and Death in closest juxtaposition, the hymn in honour of the Prophet's birth blending with the elegy to the dead.

No less remarkable was the quaint juxtaposition during the height of the riots of seething disorder and the quiet prosecution of their daily avocations by the bulk of the people.

Jocose, jocund, jurisprudence, juxtaposition, kaleidoscopic, labyrinth, lacerate, lackadaisical, lacrimal, laity, lambent, lampoon, largess, lascivious, laudable, laudation, lavation, legionary, lethargic, licentious, lineal, lingual, literati, litigious, loquacity, lubricity, lucent, lucre, lucubration, lugubrious.

His wit is seldom hard, never dry, for it is moistened by the constant juxtaposition of sentiment.

The juxtaposition of the two epithets may probably be also partly dependent on that passage in the Psalms (lviii.

After some business transactions, hurried through in his ordinary manner, he produces a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other.

For an average Frenchman, Molière's renowned juxtaposition of "Paris, la cour, le monde, l'univers," is a gospel down to this day; and no country can so justly complain of being constantly misunderstood and misrepresented by French tourists as ours.

But it stood incongruously round the corner, in a mean side street, as if anxious to escape observation; its juxtaposition to the door of a wine shop of the lowest class was noticeable in a car of such high caste; and, what was finally damning, the rat-faced man of Lyons was lounging in the door of the wine shop, sucking at a cigarette and watching the traffic with an all too listless eye shaded by the visor of a shabby cap.

[The author seems merely to have introduced scraps of Latin, without much regard to their juxtaposition.]

We thus gain another letter, r, represented by (, with the words 'the tree' in juxtaposition.

It is a curious fact that the world is always laughing and crying at the same moment; and we can hardly read a page of Burns without finding this natural juxtaposition of smiles and tears.

He had been made very angry in the morning by the 'Times' calling upon him to pay his brother's debts, and this morning the 'Morning Journal' places in juxtaposition the paragraphs in the 'Times,' and those for which it was lately prosecuted.

"W" is unknown in Spanish and the letters "a," "l," and "k" are never found in juxtaposition.

[I wonder if the modest inventor appreciated the irony of this juxtaposition.]

" Traders and Indians are placed in a loose juxtaposition.

It was a frontier agency, in immediate juxtaposition with Canada and Hudson's Bay, fifteen hundred miles of whose boundary closed upon them, separated only by the chain of lakes and rivers.

It dominates the whole scene and leaves an indelible impress on the mind, so that one can never picture Zermatt without the Matterhorn. Zermatt as a place is a curious combination; a line of hotels in juxtaposition with a village of chalets, unsophisticated peasants shoulder to shoulder with people of fashion!

At any rate it is a most singular fact, for although we might naturally conceive that the flattened circular plates would place themselves in juxtaposition, yet we never could have supposed that they would have partly slipped underneath each other.

For a criticism of Demos and Thyrza in juxtaposition with Besant's Children of Gibeon, see Miss Sichel on 'Philanthropic Novelists' (Murray's Magazine, iii.

Observe how perfectly this fits in with Swedenborg's contention that physical remoteness has for its higher correspondence a difference of love and of interest; and physical juxtaposition, a similarity of these.

The chief of these, in this case, is the geographical position, or rather juxtaposition, of the two islands.

Whoever is offended at this juxtaposition, and whoever can deem no revolution important which is not boisterous and material, has not yet risen to the broad and lofty viewpoint of the history of mankind.

On that same self-same festival, in a northern land, under a gray and clouded sky, in the heart of a city most unlike gay, garden-hued, out-of-door Madrid, we have spent the long hours over these resurrected dramas, and the spell of both the poets is still upon us, as we unite together, in dutiful juxtaposition, the names of Calderon and Mac-Carthy.

Neither was the attention of the reader diverted by the enumeration of the qualities which the juxtaposition of adjectives would have induced.

A certain girlishness of height and outline may have been emphasized by her juxtaposition to Pickering’s heavy figure.

102 examples of  juxtaposition  in sentences