How to Use cogent in a Sentence

cogent

adjective
  • But there are more cogent reasons for why this deal and why now.
    — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The lyrics are too cogent and the melodies too distinct and succinct for that.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Klenert was then in her nineties, frail and white-haired, but utterly cogent.
    — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
  • That’s why there was a pretty cogent argument for Poles to be fired.
    — Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Clear, crisp and cogent writing leads a reader along an uncluttered and vivid path.
    — Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Cooking shows were still grasping for a cogent identity in those days.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • World leaders will struggle to have a cogent grasp of minor details of who-shot-who on the front line.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Adès has written cogent program notes for them, but they weren’t included.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
  • But your overall point is cogent and again gets back to the Tyler Johnson contract.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2017
  • The most cogent case proved to be Salesforce, which happened to rally hard on its earnings.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026
  • While each has some cogent arguments on its side, Biden's position is stronger.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Which never really seemed like a very cogent argument to me but has become a cliché.
    — Justin Davidson and Alissa Walker, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The good news is our judicial system ran a cogent and fair trial in New York.
    — Douglas Brinkley, CBS News, 2 June 2024
  • Plenty had their say, but one of the clearest and most cogent responses came from Seedorf.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The journalist’s job, on those occasions, is to pick through the morass, to find the common themes, to try to work out what is most cogent.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Villa is a disparate patchwork of talented players, rather than a cogent whole.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • For the first time in a decade, the climate crusade is on its heels and desperate for a cogent message and strong leadership.
    — Julie Kelly, National Review, 17 July 2017
  • Her former colleague, Paul Michel, says Newman is clear and cogent.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The result is a cogent and compelling brief for the system of government devised by the Framers.
    — Katherine Howell, National Review, 13 June 2024
  • Even the people writing to say I should be fired usually provide a cogent reason.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
  • And to make a cogent case to the American public in 2028.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This book presents the most cogent and compelling account yet of this conflict from the Palestinian vantage point.
    — Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Flip-flopping the original's racial dynamics to no cogent end (this time, black people save white people!
    — Nick Schager, Esquire, 18 July 2014
  • Without making too big of a deal about it, this episode delivers a cogent point about using rage as a political weapon.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 5 June 2016
  • Each of the participants has laid out a cogent argument for their position.
    — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Sometimes people will argue, hey, that's not really a cogent part of the discussion.
    — Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • And a cogent reminder not to dismiss the game’s dominant figures of the past 15 to 20 years.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Could there be a more cogent statement of aesthetics in a world, now as much as in the Cold War era, built on a foundation of lies?
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • This is not a story where women battle the men, but struggle within themselves, trying to figure out the most cogent way forward.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • His book reveals Obama to be a cogent critic of the American effort.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020

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