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How to use Contra in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Contra? Here are some examples.

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Police, army, and Sandinistas killed former Contras, and northern Contra bands committed similar acts, often because of land disputes.
Indeed, the boss designs in Contra III have since served as the model for what a boss should be.
And the Iran Contra crisis introduced a new weapon into the spin doctor's armoury.
The Hungarian is on a three-year contract at the Hawthorns unlike Rumanian international Cosmin Contra who came on a year's loan from Athletico Madrid.
They had clarinet choir today and he hated the fact that this had to happen to their Contra Player and not him, who it was intended for, but she seemed to be fine.
On the orders of the Reagan administration, the CIA mined Nicaragua's Sandino port in 1984 in support of the Contra guerrilla group.
Contra dancing and country square dancing are popular throughout New England, usually backed by live Irish, Acadian, or other folk music.
Thomas Aquinas wrote two large Summas, the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles.
The Pacific Rim Recycling plant in Benicia serves the Central Contra Costa County residential recycling stream.
Thus we move swiftly through Augustine's various commentaries on Genesis, the Contra epistulam Manichaei quam uocant Fundamenti, the De Natura Boni, and the Contra Faustum.
Hence Congolese thumb pianos spice up Horchata, violins sweeten the skanky Diplomat's Son, and poignant I Think Ur A Contra nods lyrically to The Clash.
While Reagan's interventions against Grenada and Libya were popular in the United States, his backing of the Contra rebels was mired in controversy.
The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.
The philosopher Thomas Aquinas presented five arguments for God's existence in the Summa Theologica, while his Summa contra Gentiles was a major apologetic work.
Examples from Classical Literature
He ran aft, drew in the sheet, and filled on the long tack toward the Contra Costa Hills.
I'm goin' to have a town along the embarcadero that'll lay over any town in Contra Costa.
At an altitude of five hundred feet, the pigeon drove on over the town of Berkeley and lifted its flight to the Contra Costa hills.
Began in the Contra Costa in Oakland when I was eleven, shakin' out for the mangle.
Asmunsen, the owner of a large granite quarry in Contra Costa County.
Pinole was incorporated in 1903 and is located in Western Contra Costa County.
The Contra Costa County Peace Officers Monument is located in Martinez, California.
Contra the amnesiac tendencies of much Pop, these apparitional vistas intimate the abiding presence of history, however ruinous and partial.
I could make out the Selby Smelter on the Contra Costa shore and the Mare Island lighthouse.
It was nip and tuck across to the Contra Costa Hills, neither of us seeming to gain or to lose.
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