How to Use incoherence in a Sentence

incoherence

noun
Definition of incoherencenext
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  • If this is a form of incoherence, there are worse things.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • In the wrong hands, this could be a recipe for Palm Royale-level incoherence.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
  • Trump, by his incoherence and incompetence, has opened the door to the Democrats.
    — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 4 June 2017
  • What emerged in the galleries was a puddle of incoherence.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • What about doing some honor to the truth of incoherence?
    — Peter Orner, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • But there’s quite a lot of strategic incoherence on display, even in Parneros’s brief reign.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 July 2018
  • Erika, 52, asks and bursts into laughter at the Two and a Half Men star's incoherence.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Yet the bigger surprise seems to be that amid the incoherence there’s a long memory.
    — Jimmy Leach, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Signs of heat stroke include red, hot and moist or dry skin, no sweating, nausea, incoherence and a strong and rapid or slow, weak pulse.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2018
  • The American right just now is in a state of nervous incoherence.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 13 May 2021
  • This incoherence is heightened by a sense that Oakhaus is out of place in its Oak Park location.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But the incoherence of the new installments is a statement in itself.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The risk of these dual doctrines is not just incoherence.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The singer veered between majesty and incoherence, with flawless takes giving way to words sung out of order.
    — Preston Lauterbach, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The incoherence of the main storyline is not much improved in side missions.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In China Team Trump is accused of incoherence and not knowing what its own side wants.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • But the mainstream right doesn’t like to talk about that kind of history; and thus, resigns itself to incoherence.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The writers who have so far come closest to capturing the feel of the internet in their books have channeled its chaos and incoherence.
    — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
  • This explains the incoherence of the White House’s position.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Surely such incoherence is part of what has led voters to reject them.
    — William Easterly, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • Josh Mermelstein, 27, was headed to his home in Northern Liberties at 3 a.m. one night when a woman, drunk to the point of incoherence, ended up in the car with him.
    — Jason Laughlin & Samantha Melamed, kansascity, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Who, outside of a film festival, is going to be eager to cut through its thicket of incoherence?
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • But for the most part, his belligerence and incoherence was treated as a point of fact, rather than an unprecedented horror show.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 June 2019
  • The result is a government that chronically sends mixed messages, adding to the incoherence of the response to the pandemic.
    — Author: Joel Achenbach, Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The city’s rule on this matter persists despite patent incoherence.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 7 Mar. 2022
  • If there’s one subject—or mood—that Wordsworth bequeaths to modernity, it’s the integrity of incoherence.
    — Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • But Besson soon finds his way to tonal incoherence: a mishmash of somber character exploration and flagrant clichés.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In part to cover up the incoherence of the criticism, the complaint is often expressed in vague generational terms.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Imagine what world leaders saw, as our president displayed such weakness and incoherence.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
  • Nowhere is this incoherence more apparent than in policy toward Iran.
    — Brett McGurk, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2020

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