Contrasting Definition

Contrasting Sentence Examples

• They were in full bloom, their bright yellow blossoms contrasting starkly against the soft green of new grass.

• The warm sun had eaten most of the snow from the roadway, leaving a contrasting black ribbon, in places still snow-patched from last night's covering.

• The two politicians displayed contrasting perspectives.

• Buffaloes of an uncouth appearance and of a dark slaty color, strikingly contrasting with the neat cattle, abound in Egypt.

• In connexion with this controversy Lessing wrote his brilliant little treatise, Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet (1769), contrasting the medieval representation of death as a skeleton with the Greek conception of death as the twin-brother of sleep.