CONTRARY in a Sentence

Learn CONTRARY 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.

223 example sentences for CONTRARY, such as:

1. The result is contrary to expectation.
2. To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
3. Our boat took a course contrary to theirs.
4. On the contrary, it is the best possible remedy for fever.
5. 'On the contrary, I am certain I'm right,' retorted Arkady.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTRARY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contrary
 a.  relation of direct opposition; very opposed in nature or character or purpose
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  On the contrary, their heads were either close-cropped or brushed very smooth, and their faces were round and firm.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  On the contrary, Chichikov's face looked graver than usual.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
3  On the contrary, to show you that I am not a usurer, I will decline to ask of you a single kopeck for the serfs.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
4  On the contrary, they talked solely of extraneous subjects.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  On the contrary, it is the best possible remedy for fever.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
6  On the contrary, to make thousands honestly is a far more difficult matter than to make millions.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  And should I, contrary to my expectations, prove successful, I beg of you, in return for these my efforts, to renounce all thought of benefit from the property which you have acquired.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  No matter what may be said to the contrary, the body can never dispense with the soul.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  Quite the contrary, I maintain that for a thinking man nothing is a wilderness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  Arkady, on the contrary, thought it his duty, if not to help his father, at least to make a show of being ready to help him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  'On the contrary, I am certain I'm right,' retorted Arkady.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  On the contrary, I would let my tongue be cut off out of gratitude if things could be so arranged that I should lose all desire to put it out.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: X
13  On the contrary, the characteristics of our "romantics" are absolutely and directly opposed to the transcendental European type, and no European standard can be applied to them.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
14  Or perhaps it's just the contrary and you are convinced that I really think so.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
15  On the contrary, they seemed to add a zest to it by contrast, and were only sufficiently present to serve as an appetising sauce.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
Example Sentence:
1  This view is contrary to the aims of critical social research for a number of reasons.
2  Unemployment seems to be rising, despite repeated assurances to the contrary.
3  Some members of the party would like to see it develop a greater tolerance of/towards contrary points of view.
4  That does not automatically mean, however, that the money supply has been curbed, and there is considerable evidence to the contrary.
5  It wasn't a good thing; on the contrary it was a huge mistake.
6  The government has decided that the publication of the report would be 'contrary to the public interest'.
7  The result is contrary to expectation.
8  To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
9  Despite the Government's repeated assurances to the contrary, taxation has risen over the past decade.
10  So, again, that's why I couched everything in tentative terms as there's a great amount of contrary evidence, at least within some critical concentrations of the population.
11  On the contrary I think your speculation is a classic example of bending the evidence to support a religious belief.
12  Wayne is so contrary that, the more untenable a position is, the harder he'll try to defend it.
13  Our boat took a course contrary to theirs.