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Example sentences for "incongruous"

Lexicographically close words:
inconceivableness; inconceivably; inconclusive; incongruities; incongruity; incongruously; inconnu; inconsequence; inconsequent; inconsequential
  1. It would be less incongruous to suppose the phrase to mean, as is suggested in the margin of the Revised Version, that the sin has come to an end, has ceased.

  2. It would be as incongruous to associate it with the grave charge of heresy as to bring a similar accusation against the Essays of Elia or Keats's poetry.

  3. There are indications that it is a continuous poem; and yet it is characterised by startling kaleidoscopic changes that seem to break it up into incongruous fragments.

  4. The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault.

  5. Even the participial noun of this form, though it actually drops the distinction of voice, is awkward and apparently incongruous in such a relation.

  6. As I examined the several articles which we had come upon so strangely in this incongruous plate, a flood of light was let in upon my mind, and with this came also the glad certainty that the way before us to freedom was open and assured.

  7. There was something so absurdly incongruous in these comments that they acted instantly upon my overstrained nerves, and I burst into a laugh, in which the other two immediately joined.

  8. We will not say there is no friendship in trade, but that it is incongruous to make trade of friendship.

  9. And those changes in national thought which have made the old cathedrals a jumble of incongruous styles, have their parallel in the life of every individual workman.

  10. They do not appear to have reflected that from the continual changes of fashion in architecture, incongruous work would be sure to intrude itself before their gigantic projects could be realized by the generations that were to succeed them.

  11. It depends, not upon the attitude, or the temper, or the intellects of the opposing parties: but upon the stern and incongruous elements of the subject-matter of the struggle.

  12. Though I have often seen it, the Cross on the sleeve-band of a man who bears a revolver in his belt, or a rifle on his arm, has always struck me as a most incongruous thing.

  13. I figure I saw a thousand umbrellas if I saw one, and the sight of them gave a strangely incongruous touch to the thing.

  14. To me there was nothing strange or incongruous in heaven's making such an uproar about Lem Hackett.

  15. There is a mansion-and-brewery suggestion about the combination which seems very incongruous at first.

  16. Then the saloon, so incongruous in its arrangements, the carpet dirty and torn, the children in the next room barefooted, and the master of the house the secret patron of a dishonest rogue, and perhaps worse still!

  17. Still we lingered in Eppes Creek, and soon we could not do otherwise than linger; for we wakened one morning to find the stream frozen over, and Gadabout presenting the incongruous spectacle of a houseboat fast in the ice.

  18. The natives see nothing incongruous in the introduction of operatic music into divine worship.

  19. With all the pomposity and dignity of an admiral he saluted the lieutenant and climbed to the bridge and a moment later the destroyer was steaming once more on its way under the guidance of the incongruous old negro.

  20. But now it stood out in that stark little room with an air as incongruous and ashamed as that of a pink tarleton danseuse who finds herself in a monk's cell.

  21. This last, the most incongruous feature of Radwalader's explanation, was, curiously enough, the only one which had the slightest foundation in fact!

  22. The dinner was abundant, and though it seemed to us incongruous at the time, we were not twelve hours older when we looked back upon it with longing.

  23. These incongruous strips were elaborately and mysteriously marked with numbers and letters and various hieroglyphics, to decipher which would really have turned my assumed eccentricity into positive madness.

  24. Yes, poor Barber sat for the tramp, and I in return sat to him for a figure quite as incongruous in my case as the tramp was in his.

  25. He introduced choruses between the acts, two of these being written by Pope, and an incongruous love scene between Brutus and Portia.

  26. She was now dressed in black, save for one bright red ribbon round her throat, incongruous and garish.

  27. It was so surprisingly light that an incongruous rage surged up in him.

  28. For an instant he hesitated, eyed the stool opposite her, and fought off an incongruous but almost irresistible impulse to sit down.

  29. He wondered at himself for ever finding it possible to appear before the eyes of men in such a dress, and blushed to think how incongruous the clerical livery must have looked in the ballroom.

  30. The words of the splendid poem mingled in the mind of Maurice with the most incongruous and unpriestly thoughts.

  31. He had not realized what he was coming into, and now that it was too late for him to withdraw without sacrificing his pride, he saw how incongruous his presence really was.

  32. He found it difficult to understand that Mrs. Singleton should be staying with her, so incongruous was the association in his mind of two such women.

  33. In the beginning the shop irritated him, because it seemed an incongruous background for the fiery young orator.

  34. She saw nothing incongruous in Ellen going down through the house while she herself was kept out of that upper room where Edith lay, conscious now but sullen, disfigured, silent.

  35. To those not used to this method of honoring the dead, the exposure of the face to the sight of every passer-by must seem incongruous and revolting.

  36. A wrist is in like manner appended to one of the arms, and the two give a jarring note, by recalling Ichabod Crane and Cap'n Cuttle in most incongruous surroundings.

  37. CORFU [Illustration] The city of Patras, from which port we are about to take leave of Greece, is probably the most incongruous city in the kingdom.

  38. For the motive of economy I should have had nothing but respect, if it hadn't been so incongruous with everything I had known of him.

  39. That it is incongruous with its surroundings goes without saying; but then it is not more incongruous than anything else.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incongruous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnormal; absurd; alien; amusing; anomalous; assorted; bad; bizarre; clashing; conflicting; contradictory; contrary; deviating; different; differing; disagreeing; discordant; discrepant; discrete; disparate; disproportionate; dissimilar; dissonant; distinct; distinguished; divergent; divers; diverse; diversified; droll; eccentric; fallacious; faulty; flawed; foreign; funny; futile; grotesque; harsh; heterogeneous; hilarious; humorous; illogical; impolitic; improper; inadvisable; inappropriate; inapt; incoherent; incommensurable; incommensurate; incompatible; inconclusive; incongruous; inconsequent; inconsequential; inconsistent; inept; inexpedient; infelicitous; inharmonious; inopportune; invalid; irrational; irreconcilable; laughable; loose; ludicrous; many; mismatched; motley; multifarious; paradoxical; priceless; quaint; queer; quizzical; reasonless; repugnant; rich; ridiculous; risible; screaming; senseless; separate; separated; several; unauthentic; unbefitting; unconnected; undesirable; unequal; unfit; unfortunate; unhappy; unlike; unreasonable; unscientific; unseasonable; unseemly; unsuitable; untimely; unwise; variant; varied; variegated; various; varying; whimsical; witty; wrong