How to Use incompatible in a Sentence

incompatible

adjective

• This printer is incompatible with some PCs.
• The act, also known as the Williamson Act, can include a fee for the incompatible structures built on the land.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Gone are the days where your only cat tree options are bulky and incompatible with the rest of your decor.
  — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 3 Oct. 2022
• Due to the 3/8-inch chuck, the driver is incompatible with some larger bits.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2023
• That's when my doctor told me the news, that this baby was incompatible with life.
  — Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN, 1 July 2022
• In Congo, the desire for a strong leader and faith in freedom are not incompatible.
  — Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
• The phone acts as a real-time bridge between two incompatible realities — the war in Ukraine and home.
  — Erika Kinetz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• The pair fail to reconcile their incompatible goals for the future and break up at prom, leaving viewers gutted by what seemed to be a fiery and final end to Joey and Pacey.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2022
• What our Christian faith tells us is that, this was a disastrous error, incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• The New York Times suggesting that belief in evolution might be incompatible with the Catholic faith.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• This is one way to sidestep the problem of incompatible older hardware.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022
• Many of the industry’s luminaries have explained to me all the ways that unions are incompatible with their practices.
  — David Adjaye, Curbed, 6 July 2023
• At 18 weeks pregnant, the couple said they were told the fetus had multiple anomalies that were incompatible with life.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Lying to others, Kant wrote, prevents them from making choices based on the truth, which is incompatible with friendship and love.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
• Those numbers are not incompatible, as Musk seems to be talking about all accounts, while Twitter's 5 percent stat refers to accounts that are logged in and can see ads each day.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
• With that said, the Kensington is incompatible with sloped and slanted ceilings.
  — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
• Julia was stunned to hear trisomy 16 was incompatible with life.
  — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 6 Dec. 2022
• The show’s obvious scare tactics can get a little campy, but laughter isn’t incompatible with fear.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
• The side marker lights may not function due to an incompatible tail light assembly wiring harness.
  — Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2022
• Apple and Google could go further, though, using their control over the software on their devices to make their phones incompatible with TikTok.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• People reported today that the couple have split up due to their busy and incompatible schedules.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Nov. 2022
• If patients are given blood that is incompatible with their body, the immune system may attack the new blood and cause serious health problems.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Barnes told the board Wednesday that the state’s poll pad system, which poll workers use to check in voters and provide them with ballots coded to electronic cards, is incompatible with the new software.
  — Jeff Amy, ajc, 22 June 2023
• The state maintains the two legal theories are incompatible, due to conflicting standards that have to be met, Tyack said.
  — cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023
• But the focus of the individual and that of the collective are sometimes incompatible.
  — Arvid Buit, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• Much of the existing housing in Kivalina is incompatible with the Arctic climate and riddled with black mold.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The trouble will be that his political goals are incompatible with the economic ones.
  — Alexandra Prokopenko, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
• The onesie O’Connor wore was her son Jake’s, a middle finger to the executives at her record label who had warned her that motherhood and a career were incompatible.
  — Allyson McCabe, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2022
• Several said even with the conditions outlined by staff, the campsite would still be incompatible.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023
• Besides the Android-incompatible form factor, Microsoft's Android phones have had a host of other problems that the company will need to fix.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024