Contrasted

"Contrasted" in a Sentence (11 examples)

I am often contrasted with my brother.

The affluence of the United States is often contrasted with the poverty of undeveloped countries.

Slender and form-fitting with a high cut, the new qipao contrasted sharply with the traditional one.

Mary was sleeping; she was still wearing her torn white dress, and her long black hair, resting in a dishevelled manner upon her shoulders, contrasted strongly with the paleness of her face.

Indentured servitude is often contrasted with chattel slavery.

It is now Saturday, the 12th of July of 2014. My Chinese neighbours Irene, Fred, and RJ have a garage sale, from which I buy 8 Chinese books, including the translation of George Orwell's 1984. It is really a prize, a treasure about an alternate history of three competing supernations—Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia—on Earth. All the books are in the most modern form of logograms, often called "Simplified Chinese" as contrasted with "Traditional Chinese." The family are ground floor tenants of Chinese-Indian Moli and Chinese Leong, both from Fiji. Their house with a big back balcony is next to and north of my home on Lulu Island.

Supersessionism or replacement theology is often contrasted with two-covenant theology.

His warm welcome contrasted with his cool goodbye.

They complained of the hurry of modern life, which they contrasted with the calm existence of those whom they called "the pure men of old."

Miss Ashton had by degrees gathered her spirits, so far as to pay some attention to what was going on; and observing the restrained impatience of Ravenswood, contrasted with the peculiar determination of manner with which Caleb detailed his imaginary banquet, the whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter, in which she was joined by her father, though with more moderation, and finally by the Master of Ravenswood himself, though conscious that the jest was at his own expense.

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Brittany was one of France's most heavily contrasted regions.

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