How to Use incoherent in a Sentence

incoherent

adjective
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  • The fever made her incoherent.
  • The memo is completely incoherent.
  • He was very upset and practically incoherent after the accident.
  • The show is dogged by a thin plot and an incoherent narrative.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The day before the opening, Bacon came back from a lunch and found George, who had accompanied him to Paris, drunk and incoherent, in bed with a rent boy.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
  • Such reports can be highly incoherent due to the sheer haste with which they were created.
    — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Many of Webb’s new rites contained language that was not much more than incoherent babble.
    — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2023
  • My mother’s words turned me into a mumbling and incoherent mess, unable to grasp how this could have happened to her.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Also, these terms seem pretty vague and kind of incoherent, like they were coughed up somewhat at random with some last-minute Googling.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The employee said Adel called after hours in an incoherent state and slurring her words.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Justin Fields suffered through an incoherent game plan while Myles Garrett racked up a career-high 4.5 sacks.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In the Black Eyed Peas’ latter days, will.i.am embraced a sort of incoherent futurism.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The report added Avery was driving barefoot and had a strong smell of alcohol on his breath and incoherent speech.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, 1 May 2021
  • It’s based in part on what’s known as incoherent holography.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Such an analogy is, to say the least, both offensive and incoherent.
    — David M. Perry, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
  • His narration is all over the map and often incoherent.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Two more videos showed Michelle Owens as being incoherent during most of the interview process at the sheriff’s office.
    — Michael Wetzel The Decatur Daily, al, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The turf writers hustled down to get a quote from the owners, Vinnie Viola and Mike Repole, who were incoherent with joy.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • The flyer had a QR code that linked to a website that had similar incoherent statements, McDaniel said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2021
  • While the first entry in the franchise was well-received, its sequel, Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindelwald, was widely viewed as an incoherent mess.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Many of the letters, written in Spanish, are incoherent.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Reframed that way, and with heaps of oversize symbolic baggage piled on top, the story comes to seem overwrought and incoherent.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021

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