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