How to Use coherent in a Sentence

coherent

adjective
  • He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
  • They are able to function as a coherent group.
  • Despite valiant attempts, these scenes never add up to a coherent work.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Having such a long-term coach like Wenger can help bring stability and a coherent long-term strategy.
    Steve Price, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • If there is no coherent plan or things look off, encourage them to speak with a qualified financial professional.
    Cicely Jones, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Ama's not taking care of herself and someone needs to tell Dr. Rothman—preferably in a coherent sentence.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • To embrace and explore parts of herself that don’t fit neatly into this all-consuming job, this totally coherent persona.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
  • These pages are likely numerous, and the collection of pages is coherent, forming a totality.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • If Yeezy is focused on making a coherent body of work, Scott is interested to hear what Ye has cooking for Bully.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Personal mastery is sensing ourselves clearly and being coherent in our inner resonance.
    Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Mira’s character history — a former college actor who now, as a tech executive, has ceded her creative side to her ambition — is coherent.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Pursuing military action in the absence of a coherent political goal has created its own momentum, and its own dynamic.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • As a whole, ‘Sunflower’ is without doubt the best Beach Boys album in recent memory, a stylistically coherent tour de force.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The songs of each of our eras make up a coherent album.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
  • It’s all just a lot better and more coherent than the past two years.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The great trick is to pull off something that is coherent.
    Nate Sloan, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • On which side of the mirror, though, did life make more coherent sense?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • David Lynch made one in the ’80s that’s a camp classic but struggles to stay coherent.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The earth is ceasing to cohere: how to make that coherent?
    Longreads, 3 May 2024
  • When the gain of a mode exceeds losses, the light emerges in a coherent beam, and the laser is said to oscillate in that mode.
    Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
  • But mostly what the movie needs is a more coherent story.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • But in private some were scathing about the lack of a coherent strategy on Iran.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Haley said video of the encounter showed that Brooks was coherent.
    Austin Mullen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe not, and maybe no one cares if this jumble of amusing parts makes a coherent whole.
    Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Others wanted a coherent set of rules to be applied to the millions of people at the border.
    Tim Kane, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Defining any kind of era implies that the era may at some point come to a close and make way for another coherent stretch of time.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Instead, Nuno’s team put in a performance that seemed to lack a coherent plan.
    Robert Kidd, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • There's no coherent sense of space, and did somebody say Coolio?
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Unifying it all into a coherent form, in life as in art, was the great challenge.
    The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021

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