OPPOSITE in a Sentence
Learn OPPOSITE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
328 example sentences for OPPOSITE, such as:
1. His words had exactly the opposite effect.
2. He pointed to something on the opposite bank.
3. They hit a truck coming in the opposite direction.
4. His car hit a van coming in the opposite direction.
5. The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock.
2. He pointed to something on the opposite bank.
3. They hit a truck coming in the opposite direction.
4. His car hit a van coming in the opposite direction.
5. The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock.
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Meanings and Examples of OPPOSITE
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opposite
a. altogether different in nature or quality or significance
a. of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
2 The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock.
3 From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.
4 We crossed the ice, therefore, and ascended the opposite rock.
5 When I came opposite her house that morning her white roadster was beside the curb, and she was sitting in it with a lieutenant I had never seen before.
6 Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale.
7 He took the opposite chair, and for half a minute not a word was said by either.
8 Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead color.
9 Presently we saw other torches kindled at some distance behind us, and others on the marshes on the opposite bank of the river.
10 But as I was used to sit beside Joe whenever I entered that place of resort, I said "No, thank you, sir," and fell into the space Joe made for me on the opposite settle.
11 Then, and not sooner, I became aware of a strange gentleman leaning over the back of the settle opposite me, looking on.
12 My sister was in her cushioned chair in her corner, and Biddy sat at her needle-work before the fire, and Joe sat next Biddy, and I sat next Joe in the corner opposite my sister.
13 The room was but small, and the clients seemed to have had a habit of backing up against the wall; the wall, especially opposite to Mr. Jaggers's chair, being greasy with shoulders.
14 It yielded so suddenly at last, that he staggered back upon me, and I staggered back upon the opposite door, and we both laughed.
15 Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe.
Example Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1 She's so cussed she always does the opposite of what you ask.
2 In a position of authority, a weakness for the opposite sex leaves you open to blackmail.
3 Drivers coming in the opposite direction swerved to avoid the bodies.
4 He pointed to something on the opposite bank.
5 She always paid for their meals during rehearsals and they would troop off to the Express Dairy cafeteria opposite.
6 He went into TV and got his first break playing opposite Sid James in the series "Citizen James".
7 It is possible to infer two completely opposite conclusions from this set of facts.
8 This data is shown graphically on the opposite page.
9 They hit a truck coming in the opposite direction.
10 While I was waiting at the bus stop, three buses went by in the opposite direction.
11 His car hit a van coming in the opposite direction.
12 A car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction.
13 In England you must drive on the opposite side of the road to the rest of Europe.
14 Their views are at opposite extremes from each other.
15 His words had exactly the opposite effect.