INCONGRUOUS in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for INCONGRUOUS, such as:
1. This incongruity did not escape the guest.
2. Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes.
3. If he tried, his pictures seemed incongruous and false.
4. The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.
5. The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.
2. Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes.
3. If he tried, his pictures seemed incongruous and false.
4. The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.
5. The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.
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Meanings and Examples of INCONGRUOUS
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incongruous
a. lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 In the years that followed that second christening, many changes had taken place in her that made the pet name incongruous.
2 Then a strangely incongruous sight struck her eyes.
3 Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
4 It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5 But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
6 If he tried, his pictures seemed incongruous and false.
7 The most incongruous ideas were in confusion in his head.
8 Their accoutrements were horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in rags.
9 This incongruity did not escape the guest.
10 The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great.
11 Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no; with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity.
12 Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this comparison.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
13 Neither he nor she had had any such adventure before and neither was conscious of any incongruity.
14 I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.
15 Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
Example Sentence:
1 Dave saw nothing incongruous about wearing sneakers with his tuxedo; he couldn't understand why his date took one look at him and started to laugh.
2 A church tower protruding from the ground offers the incongruous spectacle to visitors.
3 The new computer looked incongruous in the dark book-filled library.
4 My other problem with the iPod is that I find them a bit of an incongruity in this age of convergence.
5 The incongruity of her situation struck Gina with unpleasant force.