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Example sentences for "diametrically"

Lexicographically close words:
diamants; diameter; diameters; diametral; diametrical; diamine; diamond; diamonded; diamondiferous; diamonds
  1. The condition of France is diametrically opposed to that of Russia.

  2. Given the same problem to the peasant and the man of mind, it will be safe to say that they will solve it in very different ways, if not in ways diametrically opposed.

  3. James Buchanan's views of the College question, would be diametrically opposed to the view of Dr.

  4. To shine, by walking honourably in the road which nature, custom, and education seem to have marked out, rather than to counteract them all, by moving awkwardly in a path diametrically opposite?

  5. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

  6. This coincidence of diametrically opposite disturbances is of too frequent occurrence to be accidental.

  7. If so, it might be possible, he thought, to descry it as it retreated in the diametrically opposite direction from that in which it had approached.

  8. They utter the same sound; but they attach to it two diametrically opposite meanings.

  9. Surely, Sir, of all reasons that ever were given for receiving a petition with peculiar honours, the strangest is that it expresses sentiments diametrically opposed to the real sentiments of those who have signed it.

  10. In fact, there is only one of the six points on which I am diametrically opposed to them: but unfortunately that point happens to be infinitely the most important of the six.

  11. Thus the opinions of Bute and those of Grenville were diametrically opposed.

  12. Twentieth-century readers may be astonished by some of the ideas: witness the claim that Negroes could never arrive at true taste, because their eyes were so accustomed to objects diametrically opposite to taste.

  13. But the consistency of such a profession with maintaining principles that are diametrically opposite to these covenants, and the cause of truth, sworn to in them (as has been made evident they do) is altogether unintelligible.

  14. He is making towards Texas with two distinct aims, the motives diametrically opposite.

  15. It comes from two other causes, in themselves totally, diametrically distinct; for the one is fear, the other love.

  16. None the less it runs diametrically counter to the letter and the spirit of Wilsonianism, which is now seen to be a wall high enough to keep out the dwarf states, but which the giants can easily clear at a bound.

  17. Both the anarchy of the powerful and the anarchy of the weak are stupid and abortive, in that they lead to results diametrically opposed to the ends sought.

  18. With ideas diametrically opposed to those of the anarchists, the socialists set out to build up their national movements by uniting the various elements in the labor world.

  19. The dissensions over the use of force, that have been so continuous and passionate in the labor movement, arise from two diametrically opposed points of view.

  20. Farther, The apostle sets this your spirit and principles, and that which indeed is the Spirit of God, in a line diametrically opposite one against another; yea the receiving of the one, opposeth the receiving of the other.

  21. You suppose an impossibility; for it cannot be that, at the same time, a man should visibly stand a member of two bodies diametrically opposite one to another.

  22. All great circles of the sphere cut each other in two points diametrically opposite, and consequently their points of section are one hundred and eighty degrees apart.

  23. There can be no shadow of doubt whatever that the only scientific method of instructing a person in the art of playing golf is one which is diametrically opposed to that adopted by practically all the leading players of the world.

  24. Is it possible to imagine two more diametrically opposed conditions of the human frame than those which I have described in Braid's own words?

  25. It is the German method to preach one thing and to practise something diametrically opposite.

  26. Incidentally, however, these duties only served to reveal still more convincingly the hollowness of Germany's preachings concerning the principles of health and hygiene to the whole world while herself practising the diametrically opposite.

  27. Here is a work constructed upon a model diametrically opposed to the familiar one of Meyerbeer, the one regnant in Europe at the date of "Tristan und Isolde's" production.

  28. You have followed a course diametrically opposite to what I expected.

  29. Then on the following night between ten and eleven o'clock Jupiter will have made two and a half turns upon his axis, and the side diametrically opposite to that seen on the first night will be visible.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diametrically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.