How to Use dichotomy in a Sentence

dichotomy

noun
  • Her essay discusses the dichotomy between good and evil in the author's novels.
  • Well, this is the kind of strange dichotomy of how it’s turned out.
    — Time, 6 Nov. 2022
  • There should be no dichotomy here.
    — Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The film will hone in on the dichotomy of fame — to be seen by all but known by none.
    — Emily Maskell, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Swift isn't the first pop singer to call out this troubling dichotomy.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Along with the schmaltz, there’s a grating false dichotomy at work.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • This dichotomy has been going on for decades.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The dichotomies of her current life are, frankly, pretty weird.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024
  • That dichotomy opens it up to be included in a wide range of styles.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The dichotomy of long versus short hair is tricky in the summer.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 25 May 2021
  • Elliott does nothing to tone down the butch-femme dichotomy in the work.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
  • As far as she is concerned, the dichotomy between the stage and the page is a false one.
    — Mariah Tauger, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • Muti takes note of a strange dichotomy, even a laughable one.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 June 2023
  • The constant switching and dichotomies gave me more than just something to write about.
    — Fresh U, Teen Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
  • That dichotomy, played for laughs, points to serious blind spots in his view of life.
    — Orange County Register, 5 Apr. 2017
  • This guy’s been a major league starter, but with that there’s a little bit of a dichotomy.
    — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 26 July 2019
  • There's a dichotomy shaping up in this midterm election year.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 9 May 2026
  • When a body is reduced, all at once, to a crude dichotomy of hot and cold, what happens to your soul?
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Does the world always have to end up being placed into such a dichotomy?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • But one of the biggest drugmakers may have set iself up for that kind of dichotomy.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • That’s a false dichotomy that is being used to try to win an argument.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Swindells is almost too villainous, but that dichotomy does work in the scheme of things.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a big dichotomy between the amount of work available for gig workers.
    — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 24 Mar. 2020
  • To spell out this dichotomy, though, is to give it far clunkier emphasis than the script does.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
  • No, because the crazy dichotomy is Nolan is not about control.
    — Vulture, 25 July 2023
  • Of course, every good doctor can code-switch to some degree, and today the old dichotomies break down.
    — Laura Kolbe, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
  • This is the dichotomy of Lendeborg.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 27 Mar. 2026
  • These false dichotomies are exhausting.
    — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Nguyen said her world view was shaped in part by the spiritual dichotomy in her household.
    — Paul Hodgins, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • Desai’s multipart meet-cute lets her challenge neat old-world–new-world dichotomies.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025

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