We found 131 examples of how to use contrary in an English sentence.
Sentences 101 to 125 of 131.
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| 101. | Since he's a famous actor, this won't end up as a simple family matter. To the contrary, I'm sure it will become a major scandal. | |
| 102. | The fly running on the mirror doesn't worry about its reflection on the points of its legs from which it sits and runs; but on the contrary, it sees on the smooth surface a quantity of very small things which interest it and which we confuse with dust and grime. | |
| 103. | The blinds were not down, for the room was seldom used in the evening, but Mrs. Barclay herself lit the lamp and then rang the bell, asking Jane Stewart, the house-maid, to bring her a cup of tea, which was quite contrary to her usual habits. | |
| 104. | It was contrary to what I had expected. | |
| 105. | We sometimes live for three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here, we become only foam on the surface of the water and have not even a grave among those we love. We have not immortal souls, we shall never live again; like the green seaweed when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have souls which live forever, even after the body has been turned to dust. They rise up through the clear, pure air, beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see. | |
| 106. | Tom said nothing to the contrary. | |
| 107. | "On the contrary," said Holmes, "out of my last fifty-three cases my name has only appeared in four, and the police have had all the credit in forty-nine. I don't blame you for not knowing this, for you are young and inexperienced, but if you wish to get on in your new duties you will work with me and not against me." | |
| 108. | Avicenna was not Muslim, contrary to what they say. | |
| 109. | The whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter. | |
| 110. | The whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter, in which she was joined by her father, though with more moderation, and finally by the Master of Ravenswood himself, though conscious that the jest was at his own expense. | |
| 111. | If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages, all the sheep brought forth speckled; but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages, all the flocks brought forth white ones. | |
| 112. | Contrary to what some people believe, Algeria isn't a fragmented nation. | |
| 113. | Northern Berber dialects are mutually intelligible with each other and any claim to the contrary is either unverified or an intentional lie. | |
| 114. | I don't have any proof to the contrary. | |
| 115. | As another of our friends has said, translation is not about replacing one language with others. Translation will, on the contrary, help the language to enter the scientific field so that it can be promoted again and again. We should open our eyes: there is a huge difference between a translated language, which can be adopted, and an orphaned language whose mere diffusion would constrain it, even if that were not the original intention. | |
| 116. | Contrary to popular opinion, Linux is not difficult to use, and in fact, has a graphical interface much like Windows. | |
| 117. | Despite rumors to the contrary, a tinfoil hat is not effective against coronavirus. | |
| 118. | The winds blow contrary to what ships wish. | |
| 119. | A man can never gain everything he hopes for: The winds blow contrary to what ships wish. | |
| 120. | On the contrary. | |
| 121. | On the contrary, I was amazed that a person like her was so mean to others. | |
| 122. | Contrary to popular legend, the four letters on the dreidel stand for the Yiddish words "gants" (all), "halb" (half), "shtel ayn" (put in), and "nisht" (not). | |
| 123. | The minority of Kabyles who defend the Algerian colonial state, are for the most part under the control of Arabo-Islamism and, for the others who are paid by the same system are attracted by the privileges. Under the guise of nationalism, they support the fascist strate that oppresses, imprisons and kills Kabyles every day and impoverishes the Kabylia by putting a stick in the wheels of the local economy. Of course this minority of Kabyle traitors don't see all this misery, quite the contrary, they speak of dates and sun on the beach. | |
| 124. | It is the Algerian criminal regime that creates terrorism in Algeria by teaching Islamic prescepts in schools and by creating trerrorist groups in order to maintain a climate of fear that makes it possible to do durty business. This is convenient for Algerians who don't want to suppress religious education in schools. Contrary to the Kabyles who fight for a secular state and scientific educational system. | |
| 125. | You're so contrary! |