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adjective

contrasting

strikingly different; tending to contrast

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

  • She lit the portrait with two contrasting sources, a cold window on one cheek and a warm lamp on the other.

    Photography

  • The two rooms hold contrasting versions of the same city, one painted in fog and the other in hard noon light.

    Art

  • The dish works because of contrasting textures: crisp shallots scattered over something soft enough to eat with a spoon.

    Cooking

  • The composer sets two contrasting themes side by side, a march in the brass and a lullaby in the strings.

    Music

  • Contrasting materials meet at the doorway, rough stone on one side and polished steel on the other.

    Architecture

  • The twins showed contrasting temperaments from infancy, one soothed by noise and the other startled by it.

    Psychology

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