How to Use congruent in a Sentence

congruent

adjective
  • Their goals are not congruent with the goals of the team.
  • My goal is to have a congruent life so that there there's no tangle, no separation.
    — Karen Walker, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • To me, this was not congruent with my growing uneasiness about breast-feeding.
    — Julie Scagell, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • To a forager, his diet must appear like a map, each flavor bound to a place of origin, with its congruent scent.
    — Michael Engelhard, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 July 2017
  • All are or more or less congruent with Shelley’s masterwork.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Jokes aside, the duo are adamant about keeping to a price point that will be congruent with the brand’s budding community.
    — Lily Templeton, WWD, 19 June 2024
  • The distance of time gives a more accurate picture of the work, which may have been released during an congruent era.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 May 2020
  • For this response to pack a punch, the senses have to be flawlessly congruent, says Jackson.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Speaking your intention should be secondary and congruent with your mood and your behavior.
    — John Rex, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The business environment has not been easy to make things affordable and congruent.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Healthcare benefits and employment have been congruent for many years.
    — Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Also congruent with the lyrics, the video ends with a view of the Framlingham Castle off in the distance.
    — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • But the prevailing feeling is that the commerce is congruent with the original purpose.
    — Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The metric to track is how often your leaders are planning team-building events that are congruent with your company’s core values.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • The two activities, and the two plot arcs, are beautifully congruent.
    — Kevin J.h. Dettmar, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The Finals appearance is a congruent end to the season for Riley.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The conservancy believes that the corps’ project will eventually be congruent with its own park plans for the area within the levees.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
  • Having good values and making a strong effort to be congruent with them is impressive and leads to an amazing atmosphere and culture.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 18 July 2017
  • Just like some aspects can make for a more congruent match, others, like Leo and Scorpio, which square each other, can make for a more contentious one.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • The advisor must have a view on investment and managing a considerable fortune that is congruent with your own.
    — Rebecca Baldridge, Robb Report, 19 June 2021
  • There is also a lack of material that is available in their native language or is culturally congruent, experts said.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Bauer’s novel begins as an ode to the alchemy that occurs when two strangers find their sensibilities and tastes to be miraculously congruent.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2022
  • That method created 12 slices (some with lots of crust, some with basically none; see above, left) that were all nevertheless congruent.
    — Lindsey Kratochwill, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2016
  • If only the movie were as striking as its vision of a Joker sporting a platinum grill and swimming in thematically congruent prison ink.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • But this approach isn't congruent with SpaceX's roadmap for Starship development.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
  • According to Smith, every light, no matter how complicated, runs off a set of phases, which are changes that are congruent with the typical flow of traffic.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Given that the university took a strong public stance about campus safety and the protection of young women all those years ago, the hire of Alexander doesn’t feel congruent right now.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Fractures that are out of place, shortened, or do not have a congruent joint surface usually need surgery to help prevent persistent pain, loss of motion and the development of arthritis.
    — Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Since the triangle is scissors congruent to the rectangle and the rectangle is scissors congruent to the square, the triangle is scissors congruent to the square.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Local school boards within the state and across the country are wrestling with how to format instruction related to race and gender that is both age-appropriate and congruent with family values.
    — Seamus McAvoy, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2022

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