How to Use coherent in a Sentence

coherent

adjective
  • He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
  • They are able to function as a coherent group.
  • What Wyler is frowning about, past this threat to her own ambition — that’s less coherent.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Most people tend to form more coherent sentences in the first two cycles of sleep, Ramar said.
    Megan Marples, CNN, 25 July 2021
  • So what if this movie essentially forgets to have a coherent plot or any real stakes; look at all of the exciting crossovers!
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2021
  • Poor leadership and lack of a coherent pandemic strategy have added to the country’s woes.
    Time, 28 June 2021
  • Hammann claims Adamis lacks a coherent business plan, is poorly run and overpays its executives.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • Kemper's apology, and those demanding it, didn't exactly chart a clear path forward or present a coherent and consistent set of moral guidelines.
    Jill Filipovic, CNN, 8 June 2021
  • An unrewarding slog to assemble even a coherent single set build, much less giving players the ability to experiment with a whole bunch of them.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • It’s a very cynical narrative, but it’s coherent: ‘These people are laundering money.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2021
  • And these are hardly the only complications facing anyone seeking to make a coherent government response to still-growing threats online.
    Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 17 July 2021
  • Republicans and Democrats generally argue for a (mostly) coherent plan for the country.
    Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 23 June 2021
  • Stitched together, the mash-up of Jay’s braggadocio and Chester’s bare emotion isn’t lyrically coherent, but somehow the tones make sense together.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Republicans are having a challenging time coming up with a coherent line of attack against President Joe Biden.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 June 2021
  • The songs of each of our eras make up a coherent album.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The story at last would be coherent—and closer to the truth.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
  • It’s all just a lot better and more coherent than the past two years.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The great trick is to pull off something that is coherent.
    Nate Sloan, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • On which side of the mirror, though, did life make more coherent sense?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • David Lynch made one in the ’80s that’s a camp classic but struggles to stay coherent.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The earth is ceasing to cohere: how to make that coherent?
    Longreads, 3 May 2024
  • When the gain of a mode exceeds losses, the light emerges in a coherent beam, and the laser is said to oscillate in that mode.
    Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
  • But mostly what the movie needs is a more coherent story.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • But in private some were scathing about the lack of a coherent strategy on Iran.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Haley said video of the encounter showed that Brooks was coherent.
    Austin Mullen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the face of the Taliban advances, there doesn't appear to be a coherent strategy to turn the tide.
    Melanie Zanona, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe not, and maybe no one cares if this jumble of amusing parts makes a coherent whole.
    Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Others wanted a coherent set of rules to be applied to the millions of people at the border.
    Tim Kane, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Defining any kind of era implies that the era may at some point come to a close and make way for another coherent stretch of time.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023

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