Example sentences for: incongruous

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

  • The five-tiered auditorium, with its incongruous modern ceiling painted by Chagall in 1964, holds a mere 2,000 spectators.

  • Atop the whole site is the incongruous Ágios Geórgios, a pretty whitewashed 14th-century church.

  • It seems incongruous that a character on a children's television show should be identified with such an impersonal thing.

  • Situated in the Posada de la Victoria, a charming early 17th-century historic inn that is incongruous with its surroundings, the museum offers a fascinating glimpse of how life was lived in Málaga in generations past.

  • The splendidly incongruous 20 th -century musical resurrection of Victor Hugo makes me conclude that, when composers set a poet's work to music, the best thing to do is, in the case of a fiasco like Disney's Hunchback , to stay away completely, and in the case of a show like Les Mis , to enjoy the story without paying any attention to the literary art.


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