How to Use non sequitur in a Sentence

non sequitur

noun

• We were talking about the new restaurant when she threw in some non sequitur about her dog.
• When the slides on the pitch deck start to go by too fast, ask a non sequitur.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
• This was one of the more bizarre non sequiturs in the history of cooking.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
• The resultant traces of smoke seem non sequitur as the distillery eschews the use of peat.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2021
• Rather, Fox News has often used Clinton as a non sequitur.
  — Alvin Chang, Vox, 11 July 2018
• That way, if anything else gets posted, someone can call it out as a non sequitur.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
• Its foreboding music and non sequitur lyrics were off-putting to critics and fans at first.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• Yet, just as often, these exchanges go off the rails with non sequiturs, silence or, most painfully, faux pas.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2024
• Ultimately, the call for an update of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act amounts to a big non sequitur in search of a fix.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Aspects of that plan take on the air of mantras or non sequiturs, lines that G and B are rehearsing in order to convince others.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2024
• And then, in a non sequitur, also called for closing harbors to migrants from African countries too.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2020
• His Platonic ideal of love, in any case, contains a large non sequitur.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Giuliani did his best to work with Hannity's non sequitur.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Her response was a bit of a non sequitur, as Stelter was asking about news conferences.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• The false equivalence of the mistreatment of three nominees by the Democrats to the lack of hearings for Merrick Garland is clever, as all non sequiturs are.
  — WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• The directors play the scene as a non sequitur joke, and as a result, the ending comes off as anticlimactic.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 6 June 2018
• The ad ends with a total non sequitur: Trump hugging an elderly Black woman.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
• Coleman told the gathering a personal story that at first seemed like a non sequitur.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• During a rally Tuesday in Erie, Pa., in-between comments on his crowd sizes and fracking, Trump sneaked in a non sequitur about the interview.
  — Author: Josh Dawsey, Colby Itkowitz, Jeremy Barr, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2020
• And here’s a huge non sequitur: That’s when Minnesota won Big Ten and national championships.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
• For years, Russian diplomats were made to confront Washington and defend the country’s meddling abroad with lies and non sequiturs.
  — Boris Bondarev, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2022
• Live action and cartoons are intercut with joyously non sequitur song breaks, and each episode features a guest star like Snoop Dogg or Tony Hale.
  — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 11 June 2024
• Hoover haters love to roast her for everything about this paragraph: the idea of parents mocking their kid’s genitalia, the simplistic sentence structure, the non sequitur of the joke.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
• When a friend asked if sweet-potato pies tasted anything like pumpkin, Amiri Baraka responded with a wry non sequitur.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• The album also exults in musical zingers, non sequiturs and startling off-grid eruptions.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Because like most iconic film lines — especially of the non sequitur variety — the joy is not so much in rewatching as reciting.
  — Jess Bergman, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
• Olivia Colman is known for her hilarious non sequiturs.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
• Heading into the second Democratic debate tonight, many are hoping for more climate talk and fewer non sequiturs.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 28 June 2019
• The big kahuna obviously is Walton, a walking, talking eccentric who specializes in throwing out a non sequitur or two during the heat of a game.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• In an appendix, Durang gives instructions on how to root his farcical non sequiturs in genuine emotion.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024