We found 131 examples of how to use contrary in an English sentence.
Sentences 76 to 100 of 131.
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| 76. | Contrary to popular belief, urinating on a jellyfish sting will do very little to help. | |
| 77. | Contrary to what many people think, during the Middle Ages most people believed that the world was spherical, not flat. | |
| 78. | On the contrary, you speak English very well, indeed! | |
| 79. | Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God. | |
| 80. | On the contrary, Zamenhof always advised testing the new forms through usage. | |
| 81. | Contrary to popular belief, Tom isn't that naive. | |
| 82. | On the contrary, I'd never say such a thing. | |
| 83. | "Have you finished?" "On the contrary. I haven't even started." | |
| 84. | Life is not short, contrary to public opinion. | |
| 85. | Mary, Mary, quite contrary, trim that pussy, it's damn hairy. | |
| 86. | The churches preach to you a gospel which they know you cannot live up to; they call upon you to become a "better man" without giving you the chance to do so. On the contrary, they uphold the conditions that make you "bad," while they command you to be "good." | |
| 87. | Law III: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. | |
| 88. | In space, your body would swell without a pressure suit because liquid in your soft tissues and, to a lesser extent, water in your circulatory system would begin to vaporize. Contrary to some existing myths, you would not explode—your skin is too strong for that to happen. | |
| 89. | I've no proof to the contrary. | |
| 90. | Contrary to the claims of politically opportunistic representatives, so-called "cyberwarfare" never causes anyone actual bodily harm. | |
| 91. | The invasion of Anglicisms had not yet started in 1945, a common assumption to the contrary. | |
| 92. | No, unfortunately; on the contrary. | |
| 93. | When Daphnis had finished his tale, Chloe kissed him, not ten times as he had asked her, but a thousand, and Echo repeated every kiss, as if to testify that Daphnis had not included in his story of her anything that was contrary to truth. | |
| 94. | Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities. | |
| 95. | Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. | |
| 96. | It is precisely because this action is contrary to our spirit, and to common sense, that business leaders, faith leaders, economists, and Americans of all political stripes called on the administration not to do what it did today. | |
| 97. | The claim that nonbinary people do not have gender dysphoria is dated and runs contrary to current medical standards. | |
| 98. | Contrary to machismo stands feminism, which aims to eliminate the inequality between the sexes. | |
| 99. | Contrary to popular belief and the propaganda of villainous oligarchs, there's plenty of space on earth for all of us. | |
| 100. | “On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire.” “In spirit?” “Exactly. My body has remained in this armchair, and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco." |