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Example sentences for: incongruous
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Take the walkway on the opposite side of the flyover from the baths and you will catch the incongruous sight of a dozen isolated Corinthian columns with a 1960s housing estate backdrop.
The incongruous high-rise blot on the landscape directly opposite is the massive Hotel Dom Pedro, rather out-of-place in this low-key town, but an indicator of its tourism ambitions.
The Venetians took his remains to Venice when they fled the island and the church was rebuilt as a mosque after an earthquake in 1856, giving the incongruous but beautiful decoration on the outer walls.
Built from 1532 to 1637, the main structure is late Gothic with a somewhat incongruous but imposing Renaissance colonnade on its western façade.
Perhaps we ought to be saying street person for the first and working stiff for the second, but the first has been pre-empted and it seems a little incongruous to find anyone actively seeking to be called a “stiff.”