Sample Sentences forincongruous (editor-reviewed)
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Her behavior seemed incongruous.incongruous = out of place
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The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin. (source)
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The song was incongruous for October, but immensely moving, overwhelming, no matter what day or what month it was sung: ... I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day. (source)
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He was so much taller and thinner than the other one that the two of them together looked rather incongruous. (source)incongruous = out of place (together)
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It seemed incongruous to call The Day a war ... because the war really was all over in a single day. (source)incongruous = out of place or inappropriate
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On the outskirts of the capital they built a storybook cottage, two stories, fretted with eaves and little porches and window boxes, an incongruous Alpine look in the tropics. (source)incongruous = out of place
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To her right and left were the usual framed photos of stuffy alums, and to her left, incongruous rows of dented metal lockers. (source)incongruous = lacking in harmony or compatibility
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It looked like an ice-cream vendor's pushcart, parked incongruously on the badlands.† (source)
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It seemed incongruous, against all logic, like a theorem you could never prove in geometry. (source)incongruous = lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
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Someone's phone is ringing, an incongruously joyful and upbeat song.† (source)
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I could just make out that he had a book as well as a knife in his hand, and was still wondering how anything so incongruous had come in their possession when... (source)incongruous = lacking in compatibility or appropriateness
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A vintage International Harvester from the 1940s, the derelict vehicle is located twenty-five miles west of Healy as the raven flies, rusting incongruously in the fireweed beside the Stampede Trail, just beyond the boundary of Denali National Park.† (source)
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The room suited my father perfectly: it was larger than life and wonderfully incongruous.† (source)
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The Hegemony spinship was incongruously streamlined with its four sets of boom arms retracted in battle readiness, its sixty-meter command probe sharp as a Clovis point, and its Hawking drive and fusion blisters set far back along the launch shaft like feathers on an arrow.† (source)
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His gray-flecked temples seemed incongruous with his otherwise youthful appearance.† (source)
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The sight of his figure pushing a trolley loaded with cleaning utensils, mops, brushes arranged incongruously, though always tidily, around teapots, cups and saucers, so that it at times resembled a street-hawker's barrow, became a familiar one around the house.† (source)
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