How to use "opposite" in a sentence

I lie down, put my hands in two holes on the far edge of the boulder and push my legs over the opposite side to jump down.

In Berner Street, almost opposite a school, were two big wooden gates which opened into Dutfield's Yard, a dark, narrow court between numbers 42 and 40

he noticed a man and a woman by the school wall opposite Dutfield's Yard

At the same time Morris Eagle, another member of the club, ran for help in the opposite direction

Mrs Cox saw the stranger in the light of the gas lamp opposite Mary's front door

Sarah Lewis, the witness who passed Christ Church at 2.30 a.m., said she saw a man standing by a lodging house opposite Miller's Court

Was it because Mrs Lewis's testimony appeared in the newspapers only after the inquest? When he read the report, he realised that she had seen him opposite Miller's Court

He did not go back a third time, but sat down on a bench at the opposite end of the Gardens

Valjean looked desperately around him, at the house opposite, the barricade, the ground

You came here to destroy a man, but you have done the opposite

She looks around the carriage: there are only eight other people there: a young couple holding hands and talking quietly on the seat opposite her; two businessmen a few seats to her right; an old lady two seats to her left; a mother and son at the far end of the carriage

There were two paths, going in opposite directions

In the dream, Danny was standing at the edge of a bottomless gorge, and Tina was on the far side, opposite him, looking across the immense gulf

A little more than a year before he had died, Danny had begun sleeping at the opposite end of the small house from the master bedroom, in what had once been the den

Just the opposite was true

They leaned in from opposite sides of the booth and read the material silently:

A young couple was plotting conspiratorially, leaning toward each other from opposite sides of a booth, their heads almost touching

Quite the opposite, in fact

"Probably in the opposite direction," Alexander said

In fact, just the opposite was true

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

'And I remember your friend, Professor Augier, saying that the only possible explanation was that the stones had been disintegrated outside the house, had then come through the walls, and been reintegrated before hitting the floor or opposite walls

She is the complete opposite of Lettice.

Inspector Slack was at the police station and soon we were sitting opposite Lawrence Redding.

Just opposite the vicarage gate is a public footpath

In another moment we were clear of the smoke and the noise, and moving quickly down the opposite side of Maybury Hill.