contrast

In a sentence

Six example sentences with contrast, each labelled with its topic.

• The white shutters contrast sharply with the black stone, which is why the facade reads so cleanly in print.

  Photography

• The lecture will contrast two accounts of justice, setting the older duty-based view against a modern bargaining model.

  Philosophy

• Wage growth in the two provinces contrasts sharply, one climbing yearly while the other has not moved for a decade.

  Economics

• The painter lets the warm ochre contrast with a cold slate gray, so the small figure seems to glow against the wall.

  Art

• The essay contrasts two sonnets written a century apart, showing how the later poet twists every image the earlier one used.

  Literature

• Pickled onions contrast with the rich pork, and the sharp bite is what keeps the sandwich from tasting heavy.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains contrast. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• primarily
• distinct
• consumption
• initial
• invest
• involved
• resident
• register
• recovery
• volume
• committed
• convince