great! some additional (sweet agony? with some repetition)

Oxymorons from Everyday Life

Whether you know it or not, you have probably used some, or at least heard, some oxymorons in your every day life.

• Great Depression
• Jumbo shrimp
• Cruel to be kind
• Pain for pleasure
• Clearly confused
• Act naturally
• Beautifully painful
• Painfully beautiful
• Deafening silence
• Pretty ugly
• Pretty fierce
• Pretty cruel
• Definitely maybe
• Living dead
• Walking dead
• Only choice
• Amazingly awful
• Alone together
• Virtual reality
• Random order
• Original copy
• Happy sad
• Disgustingly delicious
• Run slowly
• Awfully good
• Awfully delicious
• Small crowd
• Dark light
• Light darkness
• Dark snow
• Open secret
• Passive aggressive
• Appear invisible
• Awfully lucky
• Awfully pretty
• Big baby
• Tiny elephant
• Wake up dead
• Goodbye reception
• Growing smaller
• Least favorite
• True myth
• Typically weird
• Typically odd
• Naturally strange
• Weirdly normal
• Unpopular celebrity
• Worthless gold
• Sad joy
• Liquid food
• Heavy diet
• Noticeable absence
• Quiet presence
• Short wait
• Sweet agony

Sentence Examples with Oxymorons

There are some well-known sentences and quotations that make use of oxymorons. Seeing oxymorons used in context often helps to provide a better idea of how and why they are used.

• "I can resist anything, except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
• "I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief." - Charles Lamb
• "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." - Alfred Tennyson
• "Modern dancing is so old fashioned." - Samuel Goldwyn
• "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
• "I am busy doing nothing." - Oxymorons
• "A little pain never hurt anyone." - Word Explorations
• "I am a deeply superficial person." - Andy Warhol
• "No one goes to that restaurant anymore - It's always too crowded." -Yogi Berra
• "We are not anticipating any emergencies." - Word Explorations
• "A joke is actually an extremely really serious issue." - Winston Churchill
• "I like humanity, but I loathe persons." - Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "Always be sincere, even though you do not necessarily mean it." - Irene Peter
• "I generally advise persons never ever to present assistance." - P.G. Wodehouse