How to Use incongruous in a Sentence

incongruous

adjective
  • His outburst seemed incongruous to those who know him well.
  • Those two things at first may seem incongruous but make sense.
    — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 28 June 2018
  • Pork-style carp isn't the only incongruous dish on the menu on the lake.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 12 May 2022
  • That seemed both incongruous and a bit of overkill (no pun intended).
    — Brad Auerbach, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Such feelings are incongruous with the enjoyment one seeks when one steps in front of a stage.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2021
  • An incongruous, small image of a woman’s face appears on the wall she is turned to.
    — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
  • There was this huge living room and a blazing fire, and one very incongruous lady.
    — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
  • No matter how incongruous the dishes may look on the menu, put your trust in Rose.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Finding a donut like that at a grande dame like the Fairmont was all the more incongruous.
    — Noah Kaufman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2019
  • This is why so many are based on strange coincidences, incongruous facts or even slips of the tongue.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Somehow this date that seemed so incongruous ended up hitting all the right notes.
    — Lisa Bonos, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • There’s this whole other side of being an actor, which feels incongruous with the job.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Angell came to his calling by a rather circuitous and incongruous route.
    — Daniel Yergin, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Let these facts be your north stars as the Warriors close out this absurd, incongruous season.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Then, of course, I would not have been rewarded with that incongruous picnic.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 June 2022
  • Those glittering blue eyes of his seem incongruous with the shabbiness and blight of the movie’s high-risk, low-rent pool hall scene.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The audience laughs at just the mere sight of him in such an incongruous situation.
    — vanityfair.com, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Of course there was skin under the dark, formless garment, but the sight of it is incongruous and mildly shocking.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
  • But sticking synthetic turf on one of the world’s most famous beaches struck some as incongruous, or worse.
    — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
  • There’s much that’s dainty and twee, but there’s also much that’s clunky, surprising, incongruous, and spot-on.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Campus Monday morning was a bizarre mix of the normal and the incongruous.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But most would agree that the lessons learned in college stick with us, no matter how incongruous the application to our present-day lives might seem.
    — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • So perhaps the idea of making sweeping changes in the front office at a time when the team is watching its bottom line seemed incongruous.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The Offspring have been around so long — since 1984 — that the band’s name sounds incongruous these days.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
  • On the stair landing between the two floors is an incongruous gesture to emptiness—a Buddha head and a few stones.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The fireworks bursting from the stage at the very end of the concert are so incongruous that Sheeran can’t help laughing.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The unusual, the odd and the incongruous are crucial parts of the Baker universe.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • That concept is, after all, incongruous with the ethos and look of Eckhaus Latta.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Granting personhood rights to a river may seem incongruous.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That show with Iron Maiden wasn’t the first time Gallaher shared the stage with incongruous stars.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2022

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