How to Use incoherence in a Sentence

incoherence

noun
  • Surely such incoherence is part of what has led voters to reject them.
    — William Easterly, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • In the wrong hands, this could be a recipe for Palm Royale-level incoherence.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
  • This kind of incoherence doesn’t just confuse the public.
    — Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s quite a lot of strategic incoherence on display, even in Parneros’s brief reign.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 July 2018
  • His verbal stumbles and moments of incoherence were painful to watch.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • Yet the bigger surprise seems to be that amid the incoherence there’s a long memory.
    — Jimmy Leach, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The singer veered between majesty and incoherence, with flawless takes giving way to words sung out of order.
    — Preston Lauterbach, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The incoherence of the main storyline is not much improved in side missions.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Signs of heat stroke include red, hot and moist or dry skin, no sweating, nausea, incoherence and a strong and rapid or slow, weak pulse.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018
  • The American right just now is in a state of nervous incoherence.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 13 May 2021
  • The root of this dysfunction goes back to Greenspan and his studied incoherence.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The city’s rule on this matter persists despite patent incoherence.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 7 Mar. 2022
  • But the incoherence of the new installments is a statement in itself.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Trump, by his incoherence and incompetence, has opened the door to the Democrats.
    — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 4 June 2017
  • Getty herself died at eighty-four, after a long slide into incoherence.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • But the mainstream right doesn’t like to talk about that kind of history; and thus, resigns itself to incoherence.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Who, outside of a film festival, is going to be eager to cut through its thicket of incoherence?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • The Europe section highlights the incoherence of the grand plan.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • But storefronts across the city have long been weird hodgepodges, rife with misspellings and aesthetic incoherence.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026
  • The writers who have so far come closest to capturing the feel of the internet in their books have channeled its chaos and incoherence.
    — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The writers who have so far come closest to capturing the feel of the internet in their books have channeled its chaos and incoherence.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 30 June 2021
  • This incoherence is heightened by a sense that Oakhaus is out of place in its Oak Park location.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But for the most part, his belligerence and incoherence was treated as a point of fact, rather than an unprecedented horror show.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
  • The result has been incoherence; a sense of governing without meaning.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Erskine and Konkle performed the incoherence of youth with a glee that felt improvised.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2021
  • In part to cover up the incoherence of the criticism, the complaint is often expressed in vague generational terms.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Erika, 52, asks and bursts into laughter at the Two and a Half Men star's incoherence.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • That mistranslation is most visible in its tonal incoherence.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As is also often the case, incoherence and overreach threaten to topple a premise already teetering on the edge of exploitation.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Confusion at the incoherence of a policy that denounces antisemitism one day and protects Hamas the next.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 11 May 2024

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