How to Use mirror image in a Sentence

mirror image

noun
  • The left side of the building is a mirror image of the right.
  • Many are built in the mirror image of their men’s teams.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Words that mean mirror image or clone.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Hands cannot be confused with their mirror image.
    — Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But this looked like a mirror image of Game 1.
    — Dan Woike, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Why not try and invest in the mirror image of that for faculty?
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Both even share the same chunky sole unit, and the lines on the two uppers are near mirror images of each other.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In many ways, these teams are mirror images of each other going into this game.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Glossy water trails in the swamp mirror images of the wildflowers and trees on its banks.
    — Sheeka Sanahori, Outside, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Its mirror image is made by winding three and a half times in the other direction.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The unknotting number of both the (2, 7) torus knot and its mirror image is 3.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • When the brothers came face-to-face, each wearing a vest and medallions and bell-bottoms, the mirror image unnerved them both.
    — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The rehearsal room is one in a complex of many, the complex itself a mirror image of the competing one across the street.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Antimatter is like the mirror image of matter.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The scene had to be carefully framed after the team built a mirror image of the bathroom with a body double for Redmayne.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • These two groupings are essentially mirror images of each other.
    — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Re-created in neon, Baldwin’s words sit atop Twain’s, which are flipped upside down like a mirror image.
    — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Liann and Taylor are like mirror images of one another, each with a bent knee resting on the window and the other foot on the floor.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Liann and Taylor are like mirror images of one another, each with a bent knee resting on the window and the other foot on the floor.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In a sense, FIU and Delaware are mirror images.
    — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In Black Swan, Nina is surrounded by creepy mirror images.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
  • No foreign or slang words or terms, or phonetic spellings or mirror images of words or terms that fall into any of the previous categories.
    — Nathaniel Levine, Sacbee.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Modern China presents a kind of mirror image to post-WWI France.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • Changing these molecules would create an unnatural mirror image of a cell, as different as your right hand from your left.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In the show, the upside down is a mirror image to the physical world, existing in a dimension below the Earth.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The mathematicians connected one knot with an unknotting number of three to its mirror image to form a larger knot.
    — Max Springer, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Chirality is a property in which a molecule cannot be superimposed with its mirror image, like right and left hands.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The most likely explanation for this mirror image pattern is mating behavior.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And these mirror images, uniting perceptions barely conscious, were to constitute the basis from which his pilot’s dreams would someday take flight.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Colorado End of Life Options Act is a mirror image of the Oregon law.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025

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