How to Use incongruous in a Sentence

incongruous

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• His outburst seemed incongruous to those who know him well.
• Pork-style carp isn't the only incongruous dish on the menu on the lake.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 12 May 2022
• The Offspring have been around so long — since 1984 — that the band’s name sounds incongruous these days.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2022
• Finding a donut like that at a grande dame like the Fairmont was all the more incongruous.
  — Noah Kaufman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2019
• Those two things at first may seem incongruous but make sense.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 28 June 2018
• The thing was incongruous with this person, this child.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• The unusual, the odd and the incongruous are crucial parts of the Baker universe.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
• An incongruous, small image of a woman’s face appears on the wall she is turned to.
  — Victoria Dalkey, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
• The fireworks bursting from the stage at the very end of the concert are so incongruous that Sheeran can’t help laughing.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• Such feelings are incongruous with the enjoyment one seeks when one steps in front of a stage.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• That show with Iron Maiden wasn’t the first time Gallaher shared the stage with incongruous stars.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2022
• To get back to the present: Sleevelessness at the anchor desk doesn’t seem as incongruous as party clothes.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• Those glittering blue eyes of his seem incongruous with the shabbiness and blight of the movie’s high-risk, low-rent pool hall scene.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2022
• That seemed both incongruous and a bit of overkill (no pun intended).
  — Brad Auerbach, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
• This is why so many are based on strange coincidences, incongruous facts or even slips of the tongue.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2021
• Of the hundreds of battle sites all across Ukraine, the Sviatohirsk Monastery of the Caves surely ranks among the most incongruous.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2022
• Campus Monday morning was a bizarre mix of the normal and the incongruous.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2023
• On the stair landing between the two floors is an incongruous gesture to emptiness—a Buddha head and a few stones.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2018
• The scope and ambition of Posey and Padilla-Brown’s plans suddenly seemed incongruous with the scale of the place in which they were being hatched.
  — Doug Bierend, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
• There’s this whole other side of being an actor, which feels incongruous with the job.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2022
• Of course there was skin under the dark, formless garment, but the sight of it is incongruous and mildly shocking.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• There was this huge living room and a blazing fire, and one very incongruous lady.
  — Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• Director Arthur Penn spoke of the film’s incongruous tone as a commentary on the folly of the Vietnam War.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Let these facts be your north stars as the Warriors close out this absurd, incongruous season.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• But that hasn't stopped Trump and his allies from trying to make the incongruous portrayals stick.
  — Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2020
• But that hasn’t stopped Trump and his allies from trying to make the incongruous portrayals stick.
  — Jill Colvin, Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2020
• So perhaps the idea of making sweeping changes in the front office at a time when the team is watching its bottom line seemed incongruous.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• So many aspects of that stretch of Figueroa Street, north of Manchester Avenue, seem incongruous for a school.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2023
• Dressed in sweat-shorts and a T-shirt, with a calmness incongruous with his upcoming performance, Eguino sits on his patio.
  — Gina Ryder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• There was something incongruous about so many guns being so flagrantly wielded in so solemn a place.
  — Daniel Bergner, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024