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use "the contrary" in a sentence
i thought he was busy, but on the contrary he was idle.
They say he is guilty, but i believe the contrary.
He seems cheery but, on the contrary, he is sad.
i thought it was going to clear up.
On the contrary, it began to rain.
He said nothing to the contrary.
He is not rich.
On the contrary, he is deep in debt.
She thought to the contrary.
What he said was to the contrary.
i'll visit you on Sunday, if i don't write you to the contrary.
i know nothing to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald once said, "Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart.
There is ample proof to the contrary.
" amuse He's not lazy.
On the contrary, i think he's a hard worker.
They said so, but she thought to the contrary.
Some difficulty is often experienced at first in finding the hanging drop, and if the first attempt is unsuccessful, the student must not on any account, whilst still applying his eye to the ocular, rack the body tube down (for by so doing there is every likelihood of the[Pg 87] front lens of the objective being forced through the cover-glass, and not only spoiling the specimen, but also contaminating the objective); but, on the contrary, withdraw his eye, rack the tube up, and commence again from step 2.
it must be stated definitely that no micro-organism can be identified by any one character or property, whether microscopical, biological or chemical, but that on the contrary its entire life history must be carefully studied and then its identity established from a consideration of the sum total of these observations.
¶One other property of the double object-glass remains to be mentioned, which is, that when the longer aplanatic focus is used, the marginal rays of a pencil not coincident with the axis of the glass are distorted, so that a coma is thrown outwards; while the contrary effect of a coma directed towards the centre of the field is produced by the rays from the shorter focus.
it is so known a propriety, that it needs but little explication, but it is observable, which perhaps everyone has not considered, that those parts which appear the darker part of the wave, in one position to the light, in another appears the lighter, and the contrary; and by this means the undulations become transient, and in a continual change, according as the position of the parts in respect of the incident beams of light is varied.
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