How to Use obverse in a Sentence

obverse

noun
  • We thought they would be pleased with our decision. We have learned, however, that the obverse is true.
  • And if lack of activity means flimsier bones, researchers want to see if the obverse is true.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2014
  • The betting, of course, is that the probability of such a turn of events is deemed to be much lower than the obverse.
    — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Rental apologies, the obverse of rental scoldings, can be particularly thorny.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
  • As required by law, the new quarters will keep George Washington’s likeness on the obverse, or heads side, of the coins.
    — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
  • In the case of your token, the obverse would have been made with the Sam Houston design, with the backs left blank to be cast with the buyer’s choice.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • With their pea protein isolates, their gum arabic and yeast extracts, these new foods are the opposite of whole foods, the obverse of transparent sourcing.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • All of the objects bear the president’s profile on one side and a 250th anniversary emblem on the obverse.
    — Drew Pittock, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • The obverse of the coin will depict Sacagawea carrying her infant son Jean-Baptiste.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 28 June 2026
  • Hot-air balloons are the obverse of modern aeronautical advances, the beautiful black sheep to the success story of the airplane.
    — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
  • The obverse of such a strategy is the taking of a position when political advantage, and not principle, beckons.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2021
  • As is now the case, the likeness of George Washington will appear on the obverse, or head, side of the quarter, and a design focused on each woman will be on the reverse side.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The trite but Twitter-ready condition—must love dogs—stretched the challenge by choosing an image of a Shiba Inu, the most cat-like of pooches, for the coin’s obverse.
    — David Lavie, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
  • This strategy is the obverse of the investment strategy known as dollar-cost averaging—buying shares at regular intervals.
    — M. Todd Henderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2021
  • First minted in 1907, the coin features an image of Lady Liberty striding forward on its obverse and an eagle in flight on its reverse.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2021
  • Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images New designs on the obverse and reverse of the 2026 dime, quarter and half dollar coins will be minted throughout the year to celebrate 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025

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