How to Use discordant in a Sentence

discordant

adjective
  • She has the difficult task of bringing together a number of discordant elements.
  • Her dark hair fans out in slick discordant plumes, like mine.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • What happened to me was a discordant event in my life.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • But the types of posts on the app can be discordant and jarring.
    — Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The only discordant note was a dead cow stinking up the trail.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Still, there are a few slightly discordant pieces that could’ve used some smoothing.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Though there are faults to be found on this ground too; namely, the discordant, jaunty score grates.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • But the film ends on a tendentious and discordant note that detracts from the whole.
    — The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The series gave fans a nice world where discordant high school cliques found harmony.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
  • Their busy schedules pulled them back to the routine of discordant desires.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The regime was so discordant that their successors wiped their legacy clean.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Homes, bars, and dance halls pulsed with sound in a discordant, desperate attempt to stave off death.
    — Christina Coulter, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • But when his words just sit there, between hardcovers on a stark white page, their discordant notes are hard to bear.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The world is too divided and discordant for any app to bring us together.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Except for his neck tattoo of a lizard, which — even more so than his arm tattoo of a rat — struck a discordant note.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • This is a beautiful and discordant, sweet and angry piece of music, out of body and out of time.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 July 2018
  • At first, the sound was discordant, a mixture of yells and whistles and the general chaos of the crowd.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The young stunner from Chicago linked up with the alt-pop princess for a discordant bit of growling bass.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2017
  • On July 21, discordant hordes dressed in hot pink or black flocked to theaters.
    — Sasha Richie, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The deafening song of cicadas or the discordant croaking of frogs.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • That’s made all the worse by a system that censors discordant views and leaves room only for fawning approval.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
  • The idylls are punctuated by the discordant sounds of a tape rewinding at hyper-speed.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • One discordant element of the styling is the large, black plastic liners that ring around the wheel openings.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2021
  • For a while, the insects’ rhythms remain a bit discordant, like that of an orchestra warming up.
    — Leigh Ann Henion, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the songs are raw or discordant, but Donicht says they are crafted to reveal harmony.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
  • Still, something about the two together seemed discordant to me — the mild, slightly pasty pea with the cool-on-the-tongue fresh mint.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • As war rages, streets bearing names of famous Russians strike a discordant note for Ukraine.
    — Scott Sandell, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • Some events grapple with the two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday of our discordant country.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026
  • In the eighties and nineties, young and discordant indie-rock bands were equally shaped by the Stooges’ music.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The pockets of discordant laws across the continent leave the landscape chaotic.
    — Robinson Sibe, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022

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