Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: contrasted
IPA transcription: [kəntɹ'æstəd]
Pronunciations of contrasted
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Usage examples
  • Berwin shook his head, and with a silent tongue, which contrasted strangely with his late outcry, ushered Denzil out of the house.
  • It is none too many, as every reason for the modern, as contrasted with the primitive, organization of industry should be included.
  • It shocks one by its abrupt but by no means fantastic transitions. The key color is changeful, and the fluctuating themes are well contrasted.
  • From this time until the changes of puberty were well under way his sexual life contrasted strongly, in its solitude, with the former promiscuity.
  • For self is, after all, but one term in a primitive dichotomy and would lose its specific and intimate character were it no longer contrasted with anything else.
  • Obviously, the author has contrasted these ideas purposely, so that they might be more emphatic, and here we see that contrast is one of the very first devices to gain emphasis.
  • In the tenth species the female still retains the same general colouring, but the male resembles her, so that he is coloured in a much less gaudy and contrasted manner than the males of the previous species.
  • Lady Bellair was of childlike stature, and quite erect, though ninety years of age; the tasteful simplicity of her costume, her little plain white silk bonnet, her grey silk dress, her apron, her grey mittens, and her Cinderella shoes, all admirably contrasted with the vast and flaunting splendour of her companion, not less than her ladyship's small yet exquisitely proportioned form, her highly-finished extremities, and her keen sarcastic grey eye.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Museum of Bad Art, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Beatles, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Harvey Milk, License CC BY-SA 4.0