How to Use coherence in a Sentence

coherence

noun

• But the film looses coherence and urgency on the dark side of the moon.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• The World Cup gives me that coherence every four years.
  — Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
• The biggest issue feels like a lack of any kind of coherence.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• Many of the figures on the chart were rounded to provide coherence.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• But those tweaks are at the expense of coherence and the work’s refined lyricism.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
• Amid the chaotic present, the past offers escape, a sense of coherence.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
• These details are well known; the scale suggests a coherence of intent that no state in the West achieved.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• Amid lots of energy and sometimes little coherence, here were the highs and lows from the evening.
  — Vulture, 12 June 2023
• There’s a coherence in it all, because DeLillo laid it all out for me.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• But the willful swirl and the withholding of coherence are too extreme here.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
• As in the first leg, the sense was of a slightly frantic, chaotic game, lacking the coherence or fluency of the very best sides.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The structure, both stylized and raw, sometimes cries out for a bit more coherence.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
• Zabriskie's shriek wraps the pilot on a new level of fear beyond coherence.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• That is what short coherence feels like with a deep quantum circuit.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• The pictogram people were great, the drones were weird, but in total there was very little coherence to the whole program.
  — Jackson McHenry and Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• In fact, many of the show’s men, when they are agitated, speak like children: their words forced out by the pressure of need, right on the edge of coherence.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
• From the trajectory of both the polls and the president’s coherence, that may be the most flawed assumption of all.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
• The effect was to impart a new, all-singing, all-dancing dramatic coherence to the form.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• And then after the pandemic starts, there hasn’t been any coherence.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2020
• But his talent may be for coherence and a sense of proportion, of playing in space.
  — Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Yet in the growing strength and coherence of climate protests, something did change discernibly in 2019.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• At this point, there is no discipline and no coherence. . .
  — Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
• On the page, however, his flights lack the same coherence and emotional depth.
  — Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Feb. 2018
• Nadella wants a fresh start, with coherence across all product lines.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 29 Mar. 2018
• Hildur singing lullabies to Björk as a child, Hildur losing coherence on her deathbed.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
• That is also why for many of us, these recent mass shootings elude coherence.
  — Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
• But objects, whether tables or notebooks or aprons, can be tethers—to the past, to the stories people have told, to coherence.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Look at it through the lens of a dual star vehicle that isn’t afraid to sacrifice coherence in the name of cheap thrills, and this bird only slightly sings off-key.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2024
• Although the ubiquitous double timeline is used here, the contemporary story still includes the protagonist of the historic storyline, lending greater coherence to the novel.
  — The Know, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024