How to Use juxtaposed in a Sentence

juxtaposed

adjective
  • The end of the week brought a pair of juxtaposed market reports to light.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • And this week, the stock is trending for a pair of juxtaposed reasons.
    — Q.ai - Investing Reimagined, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Scenes that are packed with multiple events felt more sharply juxtaposed.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 13 May 2018
  • The couple's dining room table has a raw, earthy look juxtaposed with not-so-earthy acrylic chairs around it.
    — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • There are false endings, neurotic song changes, juxtaposed melodies and rhythms.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 13 June 2017
  • The grainy black-and-white visuals paired with retro duds send viewers into a juxtaposed blast to the past.
    — Abby Jones, Billboard, 1 May 2018
  • Lamar's single song is a juxtaposed collection of ideas, moods, personas, and styles.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Ediger juxtaposed fabrics and textures to lend each room a casual yet refined feel.
    — Kari Costas, ELLE Decor, 25 Feb. 2016
  • The song delivers a catchy chorus juxtaposed with heartbreaking lyrics that present a time when Boucher was struggling.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The pastel beach feel was juxtaposed by masculine military jackets, berets and combat boots — but the flamboyant floral sprigs were still present.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Gervais’s roast was unafraid to and with each new joke came another set of juxtaposed laughter with total outright discomfort from the audience.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Jan. 2020
  • This surreal universe, juxtaposed and paired with the realism of the video clips, will resurface at strategic moments, threaded between storytelling scenes and again at play’s end.
    — Patti Restivo, Howard County Times, 14 June 2018
  • With the change in societal conditions, media budgets are being spread very differently juxtaposed to pre-pandemic times.
    — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Though fans have no problem watching themselves on a screen that is also showing an instructor, more sensitive users (guilty) find seeing their reflection juxtaposed on top of a trainer quite jarring.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Because of their isolated nature, the storms that developed Saturday and Sunday were made more photogenic juxtaposed to clear blue sky and sunshine.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • As with all reality TV, that editing was deliberate; throughout the episode, scenes were chosen and juxtaposed to tell a very specific story.
    — Anna Menta, Cosmopolitan, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Could it have been achieved without the agonizing birth scene (in which Alice’s labor pain is juxtaposed, mystifyingly, with Phil’s orgasm)?
    — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Two juxtaposed photographs illustrate the arbitrary nature of those endeavors.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Eisenstein’s work famously features intricate arrangements of short shots, juxtaposed to shed light on the psychological composition of an event.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Black-and-white and color images, saturated with the reds and blues of Haiti’s national flag, are juxtaposed, creating intriguing visual dialogues and rhymes.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New York Review of Books, 2 June 2018
  • Crisp images of the front row of the theater, juxtaposed with smoky backdrops and ghostly lighting, make the audience appear on the same level as the performer, creating unusually striking images for stand-up comedy.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Visitors and residents alike are drawn to the complex, concentrated life force of Tokyo, the juxtaposed bustle and serenity of Kyoto, the neon abundance of Osaka.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2023
  • In that exhibit, Wilson juxtaposed slavery-era documents, objects and texts traditionally consigned to storage along with the comfortable objects of privileged white history.
    — Smithsonian, 7 May 2018
  • As debris salvage efforts continued into early 2022, the desire to preserve this unique historical site remain juxtaposed with dreams of someday resurrecting it in another form.
    — Ben Evans, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
  • And in 2005, Chanel was the subject of a Costume Institute exhibition that juxtaposed period pieces with Lagerfeld’s creations.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2019
  • With its use of a sleazy master of ceremonies (portrayed by Joel Grey), the musical juxtaposed its raunchy nightclub numbers with the stories of people living in Berlin as the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2019
  • The resulting structure appears simple—her mother’s family in England and Wales juxtaposed with her father’s in Jamaica—but over the course of the book the connections between the two lineages become increasingly evident.
    — Maya Binyam, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2019
  • The uncentered, juxtaposed photographs display the items at home in a historic place, surrounded by a collection of sculptures created by Antonio Canova, Adamo Tadolini and following generations of artists.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 June 2021

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