How to Use incongruity in a Sentence

incongruity

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  • Their brain will see the incongruity and demand to know more.
    — Pia Silva, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • This is a show to be savored for its thrills and chills and, like a dream, for its sheer incongruity.
    — David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • And what about that ace of spades found on the U.N. chief’s body—a signal, an omen or just an incongruity?
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Ji-Yoon and Bill aren’t at that level of incongruity by any means.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • And when Steve sent back that caption, just the incongruity of the frankness of her response killed me.
    — Donald Liebenson, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
  • My eyes met Bridie’s across the bed and a bubble of laughter rose up in the back of my mouth at the incongruity of the remark.
    — Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
  • Despite the incongruity of his wardrobe and words, the cable-news set was now his work space, Berman and Keilar his colleagues.
    — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Take that incongruity as fair warning for the blarney that lies ahead.
    — Ron Charles, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
  • What caught the eye most, perhaps, was the incongruity between the work and its location.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The incongruity was enough to remind a viewer of The Maverick.
    — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
  • But there is blatant incongruity and hypocrisy in the findings of MLB’s report and the discipline that has been doled out.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The incongruity was that the team with the best collection of young arms wound up entrusting Year 1 in SunTrust Park to some old ones.
    — Mark Bradley, ajc, 6 June 2017
  • The incongruity of that European tragedy is hard to fathom.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In The Idiot, the jokes come often and freely, and are propelled not through punchlines but the incongruities of everyday life.
    — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Not that this seeming incongruity was the only aspect of the night that deserved such a response.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
  • This incongruity feels both more profound and more pervasive by the day.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The aspect that throws people off is the incongruity between the dish and what many consider a salad.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • Before the attack, Martin, with her long blond hair and French accent, seems to relish her incongruity on the steppe.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Here only two stick out, with songs built to take advantage of their incongruity.
    — Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
  • To say the project has strange timing understates its sheer incongruity.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • In the study, Herrero wanted to find out if there were incongruities in the rates at which bikers and hikers had bear encounters.
    — Nick Mott, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Somehow, though, the incongruity works, and the game remains enjoyable to look at throughout.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
  • There is a profound incongruity between the pride the former president takes in his record and his loathing of the public servants who built it.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Kozma set it in present times without too many incongruities.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
  • The incongruity between the worlds can’t last forever, of course — it’s a conceit that would wear thin pretty quickly.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
  • However, the choir brings up an incongruity in the production.
    — OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • No doubt all art, low and high, has something of this appetite for felicitous incongruity, the shuffle and the surprise.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The Wallace Line runs through Asia and Australia, and shows an incongruity in the dispersion of animal species on either side.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
  • But there’s something particularly painful about the incongruity between his troubles off the floor and his play on it.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Notably, campaign groups have pointed to the incongruity of an event like the Olympics – perhaps the world’s biggest sporting event – rubbing shoulders with a beer company.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024

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