How to Use congruent in a Sentence

congruent

adjective
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  • Their goals are not congruent with the goals of the team.
  • Also congruent with the lyrics, the video ends with a view of the Framlingham Castle off in the distance.
    — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2017
  • The Finals appearance is a congruent end to the season for Riley.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2020
  • For this response to pack a punch, the senses have to be flawlessly congruent, says Jackson.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The distance of time gives a more accurate picture of the work, which may have been released during an congruent era.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 8 May 2020
  • To a forager, his diet must appear like a map, each flavor bound to a place of origin, with its congruent scent.
    — Michael Engelhard, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 July 2017
  • My goal is to have a congruent life so that there there's no tangle, no separation.
    — Karen Walker, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • In a telephone conversation, Dr. Painter said that his vision of the United States was congruent with her own.
    — ConcepciÓn De LeÓn, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • To me, this was not congruent with my growing uneasiness about breast-feeding.
    — Julie Scagell, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • But the prevailing feeling is that the commerce is congruent with the original purpose.
    — Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The conservancy believes that the corps’ project will eventually be congruent with its own park plans for the area within the levees.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 9 July 2020
  • Each of these themes couldn’t be any more different, but it’s that willingness to experiment that’s congruent in all and demands to be heard.
    — Mike Wass, Variety, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The business environment has not been easy to make things affordable and congruent.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The two activities, and the two plot arcs, are beautifully congruent.
    — Kevin J.h. Dettmar, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The metric to track is how often your leaders are planning team-building events that are congruent with your company’s core values.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Given that the university took a strong public stance about campus safety and the protection of young women all those years ago, the hire of Alexander doesn’t feel congruent right now.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Speaking your intention should be secondary and congruent with your mood and your behavior.
    — John Rex, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Having good values and making a strong effort to be congruent with them is impressive and leads to an amazing atmosphere and culture.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 18 July 2017
  • Since the triangle is scissors congruent to the rectangle and the rectangle is scissors congruent to the square, the triangle is scissors congruent to the square.
    — Patrick Honner, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That method created 12 slices (some with lots of crust, some with basically none; see above, left) that were all nevertheless congruent.
    — Lindsey Kratochwill, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2016
  • If only the movie were as striking as its vision of a Joker sporting a platinum grill and swimming in thematically congruent prison ink.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • According to Smith, every light, no matter how complicated, runs off a set of phases, which are changes that are congruent with the typical flow of traffic.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • This speech was a response to both conditions: to Americans generally, to hasten the end of the war; to his silent majority, to make their cause, and disquiet, congruent with his own.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • The advisor must have a view on investment and managing a considerable fortune that is congruent with your own.
    — Rebecca Baldridge, Robb Report, 19 June 2021
  • Bauer’s novel begins as an ode to the alchemy that occurs when two strangers find their sensibilities and tastes to be miraculously congruent.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2022
  • Healthcare benefits and employment have been congruent for many years.
    — Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Commit to being grounded in your values and working to ensure that your behavior is congruent with your values and goals. Seek ongoing feedback.
    — Hanna Hart, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Local school boards within the state and across the country are wrestling with how to format instruction related to race and gender that is both age-appropriate and congruent with family values.
    — Seamus McAvoy, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The same specialist, who has spent decades conducting forensic investigations in conflict zones around the world, also said the damage at the crater site, and at the scene, was not congruent with damage normally seen at an artillery shelling site.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Written and directed by Romola Garai, Amulet embraces some of the trope-ier elements of the genre, but executes them in a way that feels congruent with Garai's penchant for lingering shots and aesthetic world-building.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2023

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