Example sentences for: incongruous

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

  • Hoffman evidently thinks that he has chosen the last Western society in which a young woman, Hermia (Anna Friel), could plausibly be threatened with death for not obeying her father's command to marry his choice of suitors, in this case Demetrius (Christian Bale)--although David Strathairn's Theseus is such an apologetically lightweight patriarch that the threat seems incongruous.

  • Calling themselves Maharajahs, the prime ministers and their relatives built dozens of palaces in Kathmandu, usually in an incongruous neoclassical style.

  • 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 coda lasts nearly 40 minutes and is mostly talk and cleanup, the rhythms growing more relaxed until a final, incongruous spasm of violence--whereupon the surviving soldiers pack their gear and motor off to another South Pacific battle.

  • Some are unusual, incongruous, gross, strange-look-ing, downright odd, and some depend solely upon juxtaposition.


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