How to Use "oxymoron" with Example Sentences

1. They thought such a book was an oxymoron .

2. Before that oxymoron was a technical term describing a rhetorical device .

3. Fifth , the doctrine of expansionary fiscal contraction is an oxymoron in the current context .

4. They learn the words parable , oxymoron and hyperbole .

5. Oxymoron as a contradiction in terms didn 't show up until 1902 when someone who worked hard at being lazy was said to be a living oxymoron .