How to Use incoherent in a Sentence

incoherent

adjective
  • The fever made her incoherent.
  • The memo is completely incoherent.
  • He was very upset and practically incoherent after the accident.
  • His face was bloody, his eyes bloodshot and his speech slurred and incoherent.
    — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Fuda was found alert and conscious but incoherent about two miles up a very steep ravine.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The show is dogged by a thin plot and an incoherent narrative.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2023
  • As his interview from a few weeks ago shows, the guy is incoherent and unhinged.
    — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • As his interview from a few weeks ago shows, the guy is incoherent and unhinged.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Shuyi muttered something incoherent, then moved on with the show.
    — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Biden’s team could do a lot more to address our unequal and incoherent response.
    — Benjamin Mazer, Wired, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The officer said the driver slurred his speech and seemed to be incoherent.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The opposite would have been incoherent with tone, the story and its essence.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Byrne’s comments on the issue have been rambling, and at times incoherent and vague.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Trump’s words Thursday may have been incoherent, but his point was crystal clear.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Such reports can be highly incoherent due to the sheer haste with which they were created.
    — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • If that was the thesis of the evening, the subsequent acts made a somewhat incoherent set of proof points.
    — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Christianity is a broad church and the Bible is a big and incoherent book.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • In the video, Clements at times seems aggressive and incoherent.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Mar. 2018
  • And an old girlfriend manic in the street, tearing the clothes from her body, incoherent about some private grief.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
  • Lomeli said the bailiff told the court that Jeremy was incoherent and not obeying commands.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The end result is an incoherent jumble that clearly got lost in the edit, or was it rescued by it?
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Many of Webb’s new rites contained language that was not much more than incoherent babble.
    — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • At some point, the question about free will becomes hopelessly blurred and maybe even incoherent.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
  • As the spice levels rise, sweat starts to bead, faces flush, and answers descend into incoherent yelps.
    — Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In the bodycam footage, the driver appears to be incoherent while holding on to her arm and groaning.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • The playful, adolescent smile had faded and all that was left was the babble of incoherent speech.
    — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • My mother’s words turned me into a mumbling and incoherent mess, unable to grasp how this could have happened to her.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The employee said Adel called after hours in an incoherent state and slurring her words.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • One of two other people in the home called 911, saying his friend was incoherent.
    — Jonathan Mattise, The Seattle Times, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Callahan said Robbins was too incoherent to play.
    — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026

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