Sentence examples for arranged against from inspiring English sources

The phrase "arranged against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where items or people are positioned in opposition to each other or in a way that suggests conflict or contrast.
Example: "The furniture was arranged against the walls to create more space in the center of the room."
Alternatives: "positioned opposite" or "set against".

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The operating principle is a matter of counterweights & pulleys, arranged against the wall behind the basin.

Elsewhere, Laurence Olivier is seen being made up as beaky Richard III, arrestingly arranged against a black background.

The specimens are arranged against drapery, as if they were so many models posing for a fashion shoot.

At the back, the feature of a concrete yard was a row of potted plants arranged against a cream-distempered wall.

Among the high points of this installment — Mr. Cooke plans to adapt four Parker novels in all — are the heists arranged against the criminal syndicate Parker despises.

In one, Mr. Castro kneels to snap a group portrait of Khrushchev and eight members of his family arranged against a strangely barren landscape.

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With its cleanly arranged, stark-against-white photographs, "Great Estimations" is interactive in the old-fashioned way.

In 1905 he entered an arranged marriage against his will.

Ahmet arranged himself against one of these and had a drink.

A third photograph shows two Afghan civilians who appear to be dead and whose bodies have been arranged leaning against a post.

He arranged hippies against the same wall as for his dozen models in 1947, but their messiness and droopiness confounded his Shaker purity.

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