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
  • The thing was incongruous with this person, this child.
    — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • 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 | Mwake@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The campus atmosphere Monday morning was a bizarre mix of the normal and the incongruous.
    — David Jesse, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Wright complained shrilly about the city, calling it a prison, a crime of crimes, a pig pile, an incongruous mantrap and more, but this was the bluster of someone who protested too much.
    — Anthony Alofsin, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Then, of course, I would not have been rewarded with that incongruous picnic.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 1 June 2022
  • Angell came to his calling by a rather circuitous and incongruous route.
    — Daniel Yergin, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Sammy Alloush, 40, has lived across the street from the incongruous-looking 14th Street oil rig for six months and has become accustomed to it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • At the starting line, François Marsigny stood in a baggy blue shirt and shorts, an outfit that looked incongruous on his spare frame, like a tutu on a scarecrow.
    — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • At the rear, this bodywork terminates in a sharp crease that seems incongruous with the rounded contours elsewhere.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
  • If that makes the Troisgros family seem an incongruous choice of subject for this most class-conscious of American filmmakers, Wiseman has never been one to shy away from contradictions.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023

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