Sentence examples for opposite from high-quality English sources.

• …exerting pressure that deflects the cupula in the opposite direction.

• We think that our response is more appropriate to its object than its opposite.

• Then with their hands they take hold of a stick and pull in opposite directions.

• And I guess, for me, the one word that comes to mind that’s the opposite of all of that is HotDiggity.

• This deflection stimulates the hair cells by bending their stereocilia in the opposite direction.

• … (1976), opposite Sarah Miles; and A Star Is Born (1976), opposite Barbra Streisand.

• In opposite-leaved plants, the leaves are paired at a node and borne opposite to each other.

• And, disabilities, the opposite of powers, correlate with immunities, which are the opposite of liabilities.

Use opposite in a sentence.

• Current in semiconductors consists of the motion of holes in the conventional direction and electrons in the opposite direction.

• In general, each orbital can accommodate two electrons if their spins are paired—that is, if the angular momenta are of opposite sign.

• Another way to think of it is this: Americans usually want something along the lines of the opposite of whatever we’ve just had in the Presidency.

• …first notable performance was in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), in which he played the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid opposite James Coburn.

• They gave it the Greek name of Antipolis, meaning counter-city, city opposite another, because it is in fact opposite to Nice, another colony from Marseilles.

• Leibniz distinguished necessary truths, those of which the opposite is impossible (as in mathematics), from contingent truths, the opposite of which is possible, such…

• According to Newton’s third law (action and reaction are equal and opposite), the force that the ball exerts on the racket is equal and opposite to that which the racket exerts on the ball.

• According to Newton’s third law, the particles exert equal and opposite forces on one another, so any change in the momentum of one particle is exactly balanced by an equal and opposite change of the momentum of another particle.

opposite sentence examples

• Besides having opposite electrical charges, they also carry opposite values of a property called angular momentum, or spin: they are, again mathematically speaking, each other’s mirror images, albeit not in a standard two-dimensional mirror.

• The sister to the Opposite Café in Leeds centre, John praises this branch as a 'well-loved, quirky student hangout directly opposite Leeds University, focusing on Fairtrade coffee and healthy, affordable homemade food', though he has fond words for their chocolate brownies too.

• “It’s the opposite of technologically easy, it’s the opposite of allowing any kind of normal facilitation to the public,” said Cris Costello of the Florida chapter of the Sierra Club, which has partnered with almost 100 other concerned stakeholder groups and businesses in the No Roads to Ruin coalition.

• The Tennesee Accommodations for All Children Act allows schools to be sued for "all psychological, emotional, and physical harm suffered" should an individual come into contact with a person of the "opposite sex" in a communal bathroom or changing area or be required to share sleeping quarters with a person of the "opposite sex" during an overnight school trip.