How to Use polarity in a Sentence

polarity

noun
  • The game itself has a lot of polarity.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There is often a polarity between freedom and love when that doesn’t have to be the case.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 19 Jan. 2022
  • And those polarities always make the most fertile soil as an actor.
    — Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024
  • It’s known to be two-sided but that’s more about having extreme polarity.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And in many ways, Taliesin is where these two polarities mingle.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Look for spark-proof clamps and a reverse polarity alarm that will alert you if your clamps aren’t in the right position.
    — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Considering how much polarity there is in the country right now, the words seem to ring true.
    — Dina Cheney, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Scientists have found proof of that in very old rocks that still show signs of the magnetic polarity of their times.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2016
  • The question is whether the polarity is out of balance—too strong on the negative side of the equation.
    — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 10 July 2017
  • Recognizing the polarity present in these moments has been key for me.
    — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Seen on a seafloor map that shows this record, the periods of reversed and normal polarity appear as stripes.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2019
  • There is perhaps no fashion trend that can provoke such instant polarity than the skinny jean.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The polarity is clear — customers want to make more money with their suppliers, with less effort.
    — Frederick Daso, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Blow the polarities right out of the water and return to the original spark that ignited your life force in the first place.
    — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2018
  • Smith wondered, though, about the rigidity of the us and them polarity in Get Out.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
  • The polarity between Gilmore Girls and Étoile was even more stark behind the scenes.
    — Michael Ausiello, TVLine, 20 Apr. 2025
  • As all these sunspots form and fizzle, the tiny leftover charges gradually build up at the poles and cancel out their polarity.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The spots in the sun’s northern hemisphere have an opposite polarity to the spots in the southern hemisphere.
    — Curtis Roelle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The polarity change can be detected in iron-rich minerals.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Users adjust the polarity of the filter via a thumb wheel on the side of the ActionBox.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
  • The new models that are being offered as replacements should not have the polarity problem.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 15 Mar. 2021
  • This polarity of the realist and the expressionist runs broadly through the genre and the show itself.
    — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The role play, designed to flip that polarity, has forced the white partners to look at color and see it deeply, even at the risk of mortification.
    — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The optimization problem is mapped to the strength and polarity of these connections.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Given the polarity of the parties’ platforms, there are stark differences that are seemingly set in stone.
    — Ron Insana, CNBC, 27 July 2024
  • The brain sends a signal to the electrocytes, opening ion channels and briefly reversing the polarity.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • At this time, the polarity of the Sun's overall magnetic field reverses.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
  • What is wonderful now about our modern style is that those polarities are swirled together in a way that is very real and earthy, yet elegant at the same time.
    — Stephanie Granada, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2014
  • The challenge of balancing polarities -- old and new, masculine and feminine, dark and light -- is at the core of their design sense.
    — OregonLive.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Ellison struck a middle ground between the famed Sahlins-Close polarity.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2026

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