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
• Even if true, this is a non sequitur, since there’s nothing to suggest the handling ...
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Economists were trafficking in non sequitur while at the same time glossing over the fact that work divided looms largest on prices.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
• Coleman told the gathering a personal story that at first seemed like a non sequitur.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• Coleman told the gathering a personal story that at first seemed like a non sequitur.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• Coleman told the gathering a personal story that at first seemed like a non sequitur.
  — Washington Post, 15 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 non sequitur sends Grace into arpeggios of laughter, but once Dylan is out of earshot, Grace discloses to me that she’s begun to regard Dylan as one of her own children.
  — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• Or, even better, quadruple down on the lies, insults, and hours-long muddles of sentence-fragment non sequiturs that pass for campaign speeches (Donald Trump, 37.3 percent).
  — airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024