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
• So, are all the deaths around her a coincidence, or just bad luck?
  — Emma Steele, CBS News, 6 May 2022
• From the crosstown coincidences to the closing-soon, here are our top picks.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
• Both Tai and Van have been through too much to think this is mere coincidence.
  — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• But the coincidence of the show’s timing with the invasion of Ukraine is just that.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2022
• If two is a coincidence, and three’s a pattern, then four is a cry for help.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• The timing of the Tigers’ trip to Israel, then, is no coincidence.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2022
• And yet, by way of grim coincidence, the old and new get about the same observed gas mileage, in the neighborhood of 11-13 mpg.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• And the revival of the shearling coat is no coincidence.
  — Lina-Marie Baatz, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
• So how much of this is coincidence and how much of it is inspired by Swift?
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• But like Lee, Fooshee said the coincidence of events on Jan. 24 may be notable.
  — oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2022
• For the galaxies to all be in the same plane and move in the same direction seems like too much of a coincidence.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
• 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
• In a strange coincidence, on his first day of kindergarten, the boy who sat next to him happened to have the last name Brennan.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Hays didn’t feel like the buck’s daylight trek was a coincidence.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• So in a sense, that closing of a circle is about the coincidences that happen in life.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
• An ever-growing list of coincidences and common interests helps make these two sure that they were meant to be.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025