How to Use coincidence in a Sentence

coincidence

noun

• It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery.
• By a fortunate coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time.
• By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred.
• It was mere coincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago.
• Scientists have no explanation for the coincidence of these phenomena.
• And the date of the wedding, 11/11, was a lucky coincidence.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• As the adage goes, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• The timing of the fire turned out to be no coincidence.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Phil, the quieter of the pair, chalks it up to pure coincidence.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Of course a lot of that could be chalked up to just coincidence.
  — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
• The hues of said knit—red, blue, and white—was no coincidence.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
• See, the fact that the moon is the perfect size to cover up the face of the sun in the sky is a total coincidence.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• The man who filed the suit believes the timing isn't a coincidence.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• If two is a coincidence, and three’s a pattern, then four is a cry for help.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• So how much of this is coincidence and how much of it is inspired by Swift?
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• The vast majority of the album doesn’t line up to the action on the screen in any way, and the parts that do are just coincidences.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
• Hays didn’t feel like the buck’s daylight trek was a coincidence.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• By coincidence, their 1981 concert was at the same venue (then known as the San Diego Sports Arena).
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
• That transition is tricky, and the fact that the language metaphor breaks down there is not a coincidence.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
• The color, to be honest with you, that was a coincidence.
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 5 Oct. 2024
• One time is nothing, twice is a coincidence, but three times is a trend.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• Even if some of this is a coincidence, the power of gasoline prices is hard to overlook.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2022
• The timing of its release may not have been a coincidence.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Also by coincidence -- Daron was in town to attend the same Pride event as James.
  — CNN, 5 Dec. 2022
• In a bit of coincidence the company colours are bronze and a steel bicolour both of which are very ‘70’s.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• The brothers knew this might be just an eerie coincidence.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2022
• What a coincidence: The man Sonny spoke with told him that no such club exists.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
• Sun Ra insists that there is no such thing as a coincidence.
  — Cauleen Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Not even the detective who so quickly closed JP’s case can ignore the weird coincidence, nor the fact that this murder house definitely has more secrets to share.
  — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024