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.
• Both were alive and coherent but had cold-weather injuries.
  — Don Sweeney, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
• Feelings can be fuzzy, free-floating, and hard to define, but words help group them into something more coherent.
  — Travel, 22 Dec. 2020
• The square camera bump is also wrapped in faux leather, which gives the handset a coherent appearance from top to bottom.
  — PCMAG, 30 Jan. 2025
• Both of these arguments are coherent, the authors suggest.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
• The story of what went wrong this year has no coherent arc or single villain, and the final act remains unwritten.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 12 Dec. 2020
• There’s been a lot of talk about the Democratic Party having no coherent message.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
• Instead, these decisions need to be guided by the best available science, and the agencies’ guidelines need to be clear and coherent.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020
• It should be placed on the lack of a coherent national policy thereby allowing some states to become toxic swamps.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Dec. 2020
• His attempt to talk his way past the coronavirus instead of managing a coherent federal response was all too evident.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• With some, harm has been sudden, and spectacular, quickly understood, the response coherent.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2020
• The novel may also have benefited from more judicious editing to craft a more captivating and coherent plot.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
• But neither can offer a coherent alternative that doesn’t accept the premises of public-health orthodoxy.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Also, the only coherent policy of the retreating Trump forces is to leave behind as many time bombs for Biden as possible.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2020
• To correctly answer that type of question, the AI agent must seek out multiple disparate sources and assemble them into a coherent answer.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
• Local government leaders are preparing for deep budget cuts and can’t find resources to undertake a coherent enforcement strategy of their own.
  — Angela Hart California Healthline, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• The songs of each of our eras make up a coherent album.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
• The Celtics are 12-6 since the start of April and have looked like a much more coherent team since the trade deadline.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025