Get to know Juxtaposition better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like position or collocation.
Juxtaposition meaning
- The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
- An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
Synonyms of Juxtaposition
Using Juxtaposition
- The main meaning on this page is: The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter. | The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter. | An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
- Useful related words include: position, apposition, collocation, placement.
- In the example corpus, juxtaposition often appears in combinations such as: the juxtaposition, juxtaposition of, juxtaposition between.
Context around Juxtaposition
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 8 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Juxtaposition
- In this selection, "juxtaposition" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perfect, hilarious, real, having, invited and seems stand out and add context to how "juxtaposition" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a beautiful juxtaposition of sound and a hilarious juxtaposition with the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "juxtaposition" sits close to words such as abdallah, adheres and ahs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with juxtaposition
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s a real juxtaposition with him. (7 words)
It’s a beautiful juxtaposition of sound. (7 words)
The juxtaposition of Pamela Long’s Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can’t you see? (13 words)
The artform is something that she’s “falling in love with,” she said, because she’s “creating a juxtaposition between the subject matter and the materials used — Black women are expected to be seen as strong and powerful, but paper is fragile. (42 words)
The juxtaposition invited speculation it might have been a list of options for taking on the rest of a structural deficit that amounts to 2 per cent of GDP and has been growing for years. (35 words)
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s explores an unusual and intriguing concept — the juxtaposition of the 17th-century Dutch cheating the Lenape people out of Manhattan Island and the fraudulence that led to the 2008 financial crisis. (35 words)
The juxtaposition of Pamela Long’s Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can’t you see? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
He was destructive and creative, relaxed and explosive, a perfect juxtaposition in every sense in a performance that was more than complete against the league leaders.
His work behind the camera creates a hilarious juxtaposition with the bumbling buffoons who populate those landscapes.
I like to play with the juxtaposition of characters because I just feel like that’s how we are as humans.
It is a juxtaposition having people coming to these places for exercise and fresh air and encouraging car use and large vehicles.
It’s a real juxtaposition with him.
It's a terrifying juxtaposition to the slow, methodical moment in the lead up, and helps emphasize why the Nun is one of the scariest entities in The Conjuring Universe.
Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 secretly reveals that she had a toy family through posters scattered around the map, and this may be part of the reason behind this juxtaposition.
The artform is something that she’s “falling in love with,” she said, because she’s “creating a juxtaposition between the subject matter and the materials used — Black women are expected to be seen as strong and powerful, but paper is fragile.
The juxtaposition invited speculation it might have been a list of options for taking on the rest of a structural deficit that amounts to 2 per cent of GDP and has been growing for years.
The juxtaposition of Pamela Long’s Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can’t you see?
The juxtaposition of the interior of the home with the traditional Federal exterior was a surprise to the visitors.
The juxtaposition of those two paragraphs is exactly why Kansas City is tailor-made for the pageantry and pandemonium that ensues during a championship parade.
And the unfortunate juxtaposition of life and art is making people laugh all over again.
As pure imagery, the juxtaposition of a brightly colored parrot and his role in the story make for an interesting concept; something that appears so innocent and unassuming carries the weight of the world.
Cox said that as a representative of Holt, she’s often at an “uncomfortable juxtaposition” where some fellow adoptees blame her.
It is that deliberate and lyrically written juxtaposition of his own existential experience outside with his learnings and experience during his travels inside the war that is his literary and spiritual accomplishment.
It’s a beautiful juxtaposition of sound.
Magnificent as that juxtaposition seems, it’s really nothing more dramatic than the moon casting a localized shadow on Earth.
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s explores an unusual and intriguing concept — the juxtaposition of the 17th-century Dutch cheating the Lenape people out of Manhattan Island and the fraudulence that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Pressed whether she was concerned about the juxtaposition of the gifts with winter fuel allowance being stripped from pensioners, she said: 'Of course I always worry about how everything looks.
Common combinations with juxtaposition
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the juxtaposition 43×
- juxtaposition of 42×
- juxtaposition between 9×
- juxtaposition to 8×
- this juxtaposition 5×
- that juxtaposition 4×
- juxtaposition is 4×
- juxtaposition in 3×
- juxtaposition with 3×
- is juxtaposition 2×