How to Use incongruent in a Sentence

incongruent

adjective
  • How can these two seemingly incongruent concepts both be true?
    — Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Teams don't choose to distrust incongruent leaders; their nervous systems make that choice for them.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • California has long been an incongruent state for an oil company to call home.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The track was already gaining traction thanks to clips using the song to soundtrack incongruent or mundane footage.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2023
  • His recent comments are incongruent with his reaction that night.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There’s plenty of anti-Schumer sentiment out there these days, but even a Schumer fan might find her scenes incongruent with the rest.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 28 June 2022
  • These lively objects can seem incongruent with the gravity of their backstories.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2017
  • This is deeply incongruent with the model of celebrating and making room for difference.
    — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Many of the stately old East Coast museums straddle incongruent worlds.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The results are incongruent with some past investigations in other colon cancer screens.
    — Angus Chen Reprints, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
  • That may be because its tone, as the title suggests, was occasionally incongruent.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
  • So there is a charmingly incongruent quality to her photos of pets lounging on Persian carpets.
    — Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com, 6 July 2017
  • There are more than 100 access points, uneven roofs and incongruent windows, and a labyrinth of pipes, tunnels and sewers underneath.
    — Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The clients were overwhelmed and frustrated from not being able to conduct daily/weekly/monthly tasks due to the layout being incongruent with their lifestyle.
    — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Yet their business models have also led them to surveillance and data-mining practices that are incongruent with civil liberties.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Travel taught me how to relate to disparate people with incongruent values, and, thereby, how to be contradictory myself.
    — Andrew Solomon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2016
  • But so too would be a simple revenge picture with the latest genre exploration, with incongruent pop cultural music moments and overly clever dialogue.
    — Siddhartha Mahanta, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2012
  • This is why their emotional reaction may seem incongruent with the intensity of the actual interaction.
    — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But controlling what users say, especially their political views, has always been incongruent with Ottman's values.
    — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Although the results and time have proven otherwise, initially the idea of Plant and Krauss recording and performing together seemed incongruent.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • With that information, viewers are arguably made to see Joel’s final decision as incongruent with Ellie’s wishes.
    — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
  • For those who have known Meadows for a long time, including those who harbor a powerful dislike of him, his air of breezy prosperity is not at all incongruent with the crisis that currently looms over him.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The 76ers have Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, whose skill sets might be incongruent with each other but are still brilliant talents in their own ways.
    — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Meanwhile, Magic already takes a lot of inspiration from Lord of the Rings, and so a whole set based on it won't feel too incongruent with the aesthetic the game currently has.
    — Joe Parlock, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Wanting to control bodies and love and calling for unfettered freedom for guns and LLCs is inherently incongruent.
    — Megan Verlee, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024
  • Individuals provide less support to their significant other when their personal goals are incongruent with the needs of the relationship.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Look for choppy sentences, unusual inflections, abnormal phrasing, or incongruent background noise.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Biles had broken the Idol code by showing her humanness—an incongruent behavior of elite performers and societal expectations about peak performance.
    — Dr. Richard Osibanjo, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Unusual Features Large, unusual, and incongruent features that don't fit with the property should always be avoided, Tarantino says.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 11 Mar. 2026
  • While several suits filed against the company argue that Vivint has built deception into its business model, Vivint has said in statements and legal rebuttals that such practices are incongruent with its company ethics.
    — Shannon Sollitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023

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