How to Use cogent in a Sentence

cogent

adjective

• Your arguments, whether or not one agrees with them, are generally cogent, and at times elegantly expressed.
  — Willard R. Espy, letter,
• Your article provides cogent reading.
  — Mario Cuomo, letter,
• The lyrics are too cogent and the melodies too distinct and succinct for that.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
• But there are more cogent reasons for why this deal and why now.
  — Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2022
• And a cogent reminder not to dismiss the game’s dominant figures of the past 15 to 20 years.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2022
• Saich is able to give a sweeping and cogent history of it.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• But your overall point is cogent and again gets back to the Tyler Johnson contract.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2017
• Maybe even Donald Trump, in one of his more cogent moments?
  — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• The journalist’s job, on those occasions, is to pick through the morass, to find the common themes, to try to work out what is most cogent.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The result is a cogent and compelling brief for the system of government devised by the Framers.
  — Katherine Howell, National Review, 13 June 2024
• The good news is our judicial system ran a cogent and fair trial in New York.
  — Douglas Brinkley, CBS News, 2 June 2024
• It’s a field rife with fraud and chicanery and lacking any cogent case for its usefulness.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Could there be a more cogent statement of aesthetics in a world, now as much as in the Cold War era, built on a foundation of lies?
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• Klenert was then in her nineties, frail and white-haired, but utterly cogent.
  — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
• Clear, crisp and cogent writing leads a reader along an uncluttered and vivid path.
  — Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• For the first time in a decade, the climate crusade is on its heels and desperate for a cogent message and strong leadership.
  — Julie Kelly, National Review, 17 July 2017
• This book presents the most cogent and compelling account yet of this conflict from the Palestinian vantage point.
  — Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2020
• Cooking shows were still grasping for a cogent identity in those days.
  — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021
• His book reveals Obama to be a cogent critic of the American effort.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2020
• Even the people writing to say I should be fired usually provide a cogent reason.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2021
• The warning was especially cogent given the heat wave enveloping much of the U.S. this week.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
• The other half of Trump's squad, his legal team, chose not to defend his actions with a cogent explanation for them.
  — Jonathan Allen, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2020
• And in that sense, there is a cogent argument to be made for Kansas staying with adidas, and not just because the other options would come with the same rules risks.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 19 Apr. 2018
• Which never really seemed like a very cogent argument to me but has become a cliché.
  — Justin Davidson and Alissa Walker, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2021
• While each has some cogent arguments on its side, Biden's position is stronger.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Apr. 2022
• Adès has written cogent program notes for them, but they weren’t included.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
• As for its letters page per se, overly male or not, the Times does a decent job of running missives that are thoughtful, cogent, and well expressed.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Warren and Sanders represent as radical break with the free trade consensus as Trump does, but a far more cogent one.
  — Rober Kuttner, Time, 30 Sep. 2019
• Overall, though, the Marlins continue spinning wheels with a low-spending owner and no cogent path higher in the tough brutally NL East.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 28 July 2024
• He’s translated that knack to music, with an impressively cogent recitation of a popular cadence in the U.K. rap community.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024