How to Use incoherent in a Sentence

incoherent

adjective

• The fever made her incoherent.
• The memo is completely incoherent.
• He was very upset and practically incoherent after the accident.
• On the one hand, there is the man in the office: grotesque, incoherent, malicious, dumb.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• If that was the thesis of the evening, the subsequent acts made a somewhat incoherent set of proof points.
  — Josh Duboff, Vanities, 9 Dec. 2017
• His face was bloody, his eyes bloodshot and his speech slurred and incoherent.
  — Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2020
• The officer said the driver slurred his speech and seemed to be incoherent.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
• The show is dogged by a thin plot and an incoherent narrative.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2023
• Christianity is a broad church and the Bible is a big and incoherent book.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Lomeli said the bailiff told the court that Jeremy was incoherent and not obeying commands.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• But even the live-laugh-love stuff is weirdly incoherent.
  — Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The opposite would have been incoherent with tone, the story and its essence.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• It’s all incoherent and mysterious and thus very much in line with the Del Rey ethos.
  — Charu Sinha, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• What if your loved one is incoherent or unable to speak?
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• The driver, a 29-year-old from Cleveland, was incoherent and could not stand up by himself.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Byrne’s comments on the issue have been rambling, and at times incoherent and vague.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
• Fuda was found alert and conscious but incoherent about two miles up a very steep ravine.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2020
• One of the drunk men walked up to the driver’s side window and said something incoherent to Taylor, who started to pull away.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
• As his interview from a few weeks ago shows, the guy is incoherent and unhinged.
  — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• In the video, Clements at times seems aggressive and incoherent.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Mar. 2018
• In the bodycam footage, the driver appears to be incoherent while holding on to her arm and groaning.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 July 2023
• And an old girlfriend manic in the street, tearing the clothes from her body, incoherent about some private grief.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• One of two other people in the home called 911, saying his friend was incoherent.
  — Jonathan Mattise, The Seattle Times, 8 Aug. 2017
• In his head, North was shouting something incoherent, made up of a string of curse words, forged from soft, wet, plump, trembling, heat.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 9 Jan. 2018
• In the decade since 2013, of course, the G.O.P.’s lurch toward incoherent right-wing populism has continued.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2023
• The playful, adolescent smile had faded and all that was left was the babble of incoherent speech.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The first officer on the scene spoke with Olson, who was incoherent and carrying a squeegee and a two-foot crowbar.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2021
• Biden’s team could do a lot more to address our unequal and incoherent response.
  — Benjamin Mazer, Wired, 1 Dec. 2020
• Trump’s words Thursday may have been incoherent, but his point was crystal clear.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
• Meanwhile, Trump was incoherent and lacked any serious grasp on policy.
  — NPR, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024