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.
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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
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This was one of the more bizarre non sequiturs in the history of cooking.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
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The resultant traces of smoke seem non sequitur as the distillery eschews the use of peat.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2021
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Rather, Fox News has often used Clinton as a non sequitur.
—Alvin Chang, Vox, 11 July 2018
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That way, if anything else gets posted, someone can call it out as a non sequitur.
—Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2020
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Its foreboding music and non sequitur lyrics were off-putting to critics and fans at first.
—Neil Shah, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
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And then, in a non sequitur, also called for closing harbors to migrants from African countries too.
—Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2020
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His Platonic ideal of love, in any case, contains a large non sequitur.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
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Giuliani did his best to work with Hannity's non sequitur.
—Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
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Her response was a bit of a non sequitur, as Stelter was asking about news conferences.
—Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
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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
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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
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Coleman told the gathering a personal story that at first seemed like a non sequitur.
—Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
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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
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And here’s a huge non sequitur: That’s when Minnesota won Big Ten and national championships.
—Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thompson stars as Maureen, Meyerowitz’s bohemian fourth wife, an expert at delivering a good non sequitur.
—Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 20 Sep. 2017
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Steely, terse, nocturnal, halting, nervously coiled, spooky and a continuous stream of non sequiturs.
—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 22 Feb. 2018
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The comment that triggered misconduct proceedings was almost a non sequitur, Mossman said.
—Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
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The mention of people experiencing homelessness might seem like something of a non sequitur, an unusual topic that had found its way into Trump's speech.
—Philip Bump, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
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Her best lines were odd non sequiturs that revealed disturbing flashes of family history.
—Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
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Instead, Mulvaney suggested that Trump would accept subsidies in exchange for a full Obamacare repeal (a non sequitur) or for his greatest desire: funding for the border wall.
—Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
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What might seem a non sequitur or surreal in Stein is understood as plain speech in Thomson's deceptively straightforward setting.
—Mark Swed, latimes.com, 21 May 2018
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Even a journalist interviewing the great man offers non sequitur musings and then responds with similar vague distractions.
—Armond White, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
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Instead, the charge relies upon insinuations, elisions, and non sequiturs.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
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