Example sentences for: coincide

How can you use “coincide” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Occasionally, rhyme and reason happily coincide, as in skin-and-blister = sister, but for true metaphors there must be some sense connexion, otherwise the substitute word or phrase is merely used randomly, or like a secret code.

  • Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) notes that congressional support waned after the president made his case, as Capitol Hill realized that the administration's "ends and means don't coincide."

  • Unlawful lock-outs or evictions are often timed to coincide with brief absences, and may ripen while an alien is out of the country visiting relatives.

  • These families with L1s exhibiting identity in the 5' flank were eliminated from further analysis, as the L1s may represent the same insertion event that was part of a segmental duplication in the genome whose endpoint happened to coincide with the 3' TSD.

  • Sonograms allow doctors to estimate the fetus's weight, which correlates with the lungs' development, and to look for signs--such as the development of functioning eyelids and creases in the skin--that coincide with the onset of a functioning respiratory system.


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