How to Use coherent in a Sentence

coherent

adjective
  • He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
  • They are able to function as a coherent group.
  • Those two games aside, there was no sign of a coherent style forming.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • On which side of the mirror, though, did life make more coherent sense?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Two events might have destabilised a less coherent unit.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • From the outside, her life looked coherent.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • The tone of the film never settles on a coherent rhythm.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Leaders now must make each one fit into a coherent whole.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Maybe not, and maybe no one cares if this jumble of amusing parts makes a coherent whole.
    — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Couldn’t somebody have made a more coherent claim against the war from the podium?
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
  • There just aren’t very coherent messages coming out of the city about how to work with it.
    — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The world no longer presents itself in coherent phrases.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • When your nervous system is coherent, time slows down.
    — Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • So quite a bit of coherent narrative has already emerged from the soup.
    — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Cold Case presents that latter story in its most coherent form yet.
    — Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Haley said video of the encounter showed that Brooks was coherent.
    — Austin Mullen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The early aughts marked the death rattle of a coherent zeitgeist.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • There's no coherent sense of space, and did somebody say Coolio?
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • There's been a lot of buzz about 5G over the last year—much of it, sadly, none too coherent.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Few have led with the obvious fact that neither the man nor the message make coherent sense.
    — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • Unifying it all into a coherent form, in life as in art, was the great challenge.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Calm is the presence of coherent signals.
    — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • From a distance, the system seems coherent.
    — Jennifer Obel, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But in private some were scathing about the lack of a coherent strategy on Iran.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And so the chamber, because of the work on the body and mind, creates that coherent moment.
    — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 28 July 2025
  • But today, Cursor says models are smarter and can stay coherent for much longer.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Delicious food all around, but perhaps not coherent enough to build a nation on.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Use a tablecloth or table runner so the theme feels coherent when your guests’ items are lined up on display.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2026
  • Instead, Nuno’s team put in a performance that seemed to lack a coherent plan.
    — Robert Kidd, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021

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