Example Sentences

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“It’s this incongruousness of an 85-year-old Jewish grandmother who is speaking truth to power.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2020

And predictably, the media narratives around the women in these stories hinges on the incongruousness of it all.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2018

It’s precisely that incongruousness, combined with Samberg’s genuine musical abilities, that makes him such an inspired choice in the role.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2016

The boudoir was a large room, repeating on a bigger scale the incongruousness and ill fitting splendor of the others.

From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret

It means the selecting and simplifying of essentials into an ideal shape; and therefore it implies the absence of all superfluity, incongruousness, bombast, extravagance or purposelessness.

From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)