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Contra is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Contra meaning

Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.

Using Contra

  • The main meaning on this page is: Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
  • In the example corpus, contra often appears in combinations such as: contra costa, the contra, in contra.

Context around Contra

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Contra

  • In this selection, "contra" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, district, 2024, central, costa, thought and down stand out and add context to how "contra" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include account the contra account data and and a contra flow on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "contra" sits close to words such as affleck, amounting and atari, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with contra

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Contra Costa and Solano Counties moved from red to purple. (10 words)

Contra popular perception sometimes conveyed in movies and the like, Interpol is not actually a police force itself. (18 words)

Then there’s the April 11 amphitheater performance by the Los Angeles-based Contra-Tiempo Advocacy Dance Theater. (18 words)

Wild Asparagus, a New England contra dancing institution (but way more fun than that sounds), will play the monthly Belfast Flying Shoes contra dance Friday night, Sept. 7, at the American Legion Post 43, 143 Church St. George Marshall will call. (41 words)

Caltrans and the Contra Costa Transportation Authority are installing girders to widen the Highway 4 bridge over I-680 in the first stage of a project to improve safety and reduce congestion at the interchange in central Contra Costa County. (40 words)

The traffic management will consist of the lanes heading towards Rice Bridge being closed and a contra-flow on the lanes heading away from Rice Bridge for approximately 100m, just to the east of the old Ard Rí Hotel entrance. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Contra Costa Fire) is excited to announce the 2024 Contra Costa Fire Annual Open House.

Caltrans and the Contra Costa Transportation Authority are installing girders to widen the Highway 4 bridge over I-680 in the first stage of a project to improve safety and reduce congestion at the interchange in central Contra Costa County.

He said CONTRA thought they’d taken everyone out, but he had brought in two guys ready to take CONTRA down.

Wild Asparagus, a New England contra dancing institution (but way more fun than that sounds), will play the monthly Belfast Flying Shoes contra dance Friday night, Sept. 7, at the American Legion Post 43, 143 Church St. George Marshall will call.

Despite undercover collaboration with US president Ronald Reagan on his Contra war in Nicaragua (including the infamous Iran-Contra Affair ), to deliver arms and drugs by airplane, relations between the United States and Panama worsened in the 1980s.

The Contra chain of command included some ex-National Guardsmen, including Contra founder and commander Enrique Bermúdez and others.

A brazen snatch-and-grab sunglasses theft operation that hit several stores in SF and the East Bay has brought three-year prison sentences for two Contra Costa County men in their early 20s.

A serious fire in Contra Costa county started in a senior housing complex on Saturday, displacing an unknown number of residents and injuring one.

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But then, more than a month later, the Contra Costa County Health Department published a informing residents that the “white dust” was a hazardous material released by the Martinez Refining Co. on the northern edge of the city.

Contra Costa and Solano Counties moved from red to purple.

Contra: Operation Galuga marks the revival of the beloved shooter franchise after a decade-long hiatus, with WayForward leading the development.

Contra popular perception sometimes conveyed in movies and the like, Interpol is not actually a police force itself.

If a debit is the pure steadiness recorded within the associated account, the contra account data a credit score.

Jersey Mike’s Putting Money On Contra Costa County – Sandwich Shop Chain Plans To Open 3 Locations In Concord, Walnut.

One person died in a fire at a fourplex in Martinez early Wednesday morning, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman said.

The Contra Costa District Attorney’s office did not have records for the case, saying they had likely been purged from the system when the case was dismissed.

Then as I was driving towards the bank by Sears, someone come from Contra Costa Blvd and drove right through the stop sign, looking neither left nor right.

Then there’s the April 11 amphitheater performance by the Los Angeles-based Contra-Tiempo Advocacy Dance Theater.

The partners aim to off-take up to 99 wet tons of waste per day as a hydrogen production feedstock sourced from the West Contra Costa Sanitary Landfill.

The traffic management will consist of the lanes heading towards Rice Bridge being closed and a contra-flow on the lanes heading away from Rice Bridge for approximately 100m, just to the east of the old Ard Rí Hotel entrance.

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Common combinations with contra

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "contra" in a sentence?
An example: "Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (Contra Costa Fire) is excited to announce the 2024 Contra Costa Fire Annual Open House." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "contra" from authentic English texts.
What does "contra" mean?
Contra means: Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
How many example sentences with "contra" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "contra", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.