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.
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The songs of each of our eras make up a coherent album.
— Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023 -
The Celtics are 12-6 since the start of April and have looked like a much more coherent team since the trade deadline.
— BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021 -
The story at last would be coherent—and closer to the truth.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021 -
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 -
In the face of the Taliban advances, there doesn't appear to be a coherent strategy to turn the tide.
— Melanie Zanona, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021 -
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 -
The 50-year-old Rocky River woman slurred her speech and could not form coherent sentences.
— Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2022 -
O’Rourke has to boil it down to a snappy, coherent message and hammer it at his rallies.
— Dallas News, 27 June 2022 -
Most people tend to form more coherent sentences in the first two cycles of sleep, Ramar said.
— Megan Marples, CNN, 25 July 2021 -
Now the two are melding their systems to produce a coherent system at Auburn.
— Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023 -
Cold Case presents that latter story in its most coherent form yet.
— Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024 -
The United States has no coherent system of long-term care, mostly a patchwork.
— Jordan Rau, Fortune Well, 16 Nov. 2023 -
The alleged gunman’s digital footprint failed to unveil a coherent right-wing or left-wing ideology.
— Aarushi Bhandari, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025 -
Organize questions in a coherent sequence that guides respondents smoothly through the survey.
— Lauren Parr, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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