How to Use contradict in a Sentence

contradict

verb

• He contradicted the charges of his critics.
• The mayor's actions in office contradicted the promises he made during the campaign.
• My sister doesn't like being contradicted.
• As a result, some of the events in the second book contradict the events in the first. .
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• But there are a few points that contradict the picture.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• That opinion has not in the last two years been contradicted by any court.
  — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2018
• But then so are the other people (in the play) who contradict him.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• By the time the credits roll, the movie has contradicted itself in the profoundest of ways.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• Court records in the document case contradict his claims.
  — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
• That claim is contradicted by the video of his talk with detectives.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 5 June 2018
• Claims like these don’t contradict your account or put your sister in the right.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023
• As is often the case in these disputes, even the complaints seem to contradict each other.
  — Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• This contradicts the statements from others that this had nothing to do with the campaign.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 3 May 2018
• Now Humm was confronted with a set of goals that seem to contradict each other.
  — WSJ, 3 May 2021
• The findings contradict a narrative that was a large part of the school's history.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2020
• Coach Kennedy’s own words contradict the idea that his act was private.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2022
• Over the years, the government of Brazil has seemed to contradict itself on such questions.
  — Monte Reel, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• But in a trend that contradicts normal patterns, the road team has a better record in each stadium.
  — Giana Han, al, 15 Nov. 2019
• Blake Pieroni is among Hoosiers trying to contradict that.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2021
• Both findings contradict the idea that outsiders are the ones driving up housing prices.
  — Keli‘i Akina, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
• One of his early crimes, shown in flashback, appears to contradict that code.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
• Later in his speech, Brooks seemed to contradict his election fraud case.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 24 Jan. 2021
• This seems to contradict our portion which suggests that good deeds are performed for reward.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 15 May 2017
• Mnuchin, though, did appear to contradict Trump in terms of the scope of the ZTE talks.
  — Damian Paletta and David J. Lynch, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
• How will consumers trust you if your brand’s actions contradict its words, or if the effort comes across as forced?
  — Philip Kushmaro, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• So a false belief remains fixed, and any outcomes that contradict it are not accepted by the brain.
  — Michele Solis, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• That’s not the only move Iger has made that contradicts his previous stances.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
• That contradicts recent reports that said charges were headed her way.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Sweeney also seemed to contradict himself by denying that Cassidy had lost the room.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• Or maybe someone stated their stance but seemed to contradict themselves at every turn?
  — Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024