How to Use incongruity in a Sentence

incongruity

noun
  • Their brain will see the incongruity and demand to know more.
    — Pia Silva, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • There is an incongruity that may be best understood as an irony.
    — Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • This is a show to be savored for its thrills and chills and, like a dream, for its sheer incongruity.
    — David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • Take that incongruity as fair warning for the blarney that lies ahead.
    — Ron Charles, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • Kozma set it in present times without too many incongruities.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • Ji-Yoon and Bill aren’t at that level of incongruity by any means.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Here only two stick out, with songs built to take advantage of their incongruity.
    — Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Nobody is more alive to the comic incongruity than the man himself.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • This incongruity feels both more profound and more pervasive by the day.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
  • To say the project has strange timing understates its sheer incongruity.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • That incongruity was his calling card (as were his paintbrush eyebrows).
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The natural state of life is that of incongruity; thus, better have your boxes ready.
    — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • What caught the eye most, perhaps, was the incongruity between the work and its location.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • And when Steve sent back that caption, just the incongruity of the frankness of her response killed me.
    — Donald Liebenson, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Not a single critic of the book was struck by the incongruity of this failure in basic thriller plotting.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Not that this seeming incongruity was the only aspect of the night that deserved such a response.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • So the incongruity might be coming from a place of the myth of meritocracy.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
  • However, the choir brings up an incongruity in the production.
    — OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The aspect that throws people off is the incongruity between the dish and what many consider a salad.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • But that incongruity becomes part of The Monkey’s strange sense of humor.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Somehow, though, the incongruity works, and the game remains enjoyable to look at throughout.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
  • My eyes met Bridie’s across the bed and a bubble of laughter rose up in the back of my mouth at the incongruity of the remark.
    — Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • The contrasts didn’t hit him all at once, but more slowly — an accumulation of incongruities that built up over time.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • At least the outgoing talk show host noted the incongruity of him giving an award for dance and electronic music.
    — David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Plehn finds the bottom-quark incongruities intriguing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Iran’s missile attack shows the incongruity of the looming nuclear deal.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Despite the incongruity of his wardrobe and words, the cable-news set was now his work space, Berman and Keilar his colleagues.
    — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Yet the awkwardness that arises from these incongruities seems to inspire actors and directors to give of their very best.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Petzold marvelled at the incongruities.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • There is a profound incongruity between the pride the former president takes in his record and his loathing of the public servants who built it.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023

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