How to Use coincidence in a Sentence

coincidence

noun

• It was no coincidence that he quit his job at the bank a day after the robbery.
• By a fortunate coincidence, we arrived at the theater at the same time.
• By coincidence, every man in the room was named Fred.
• It was mere coincidence that brought them together so far from Chicago.
• Scientists have no explanation for the coincidence of these phenomena.
• As the adage goes, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Even if some of this is a coincidence, the power of gasoline prices is hard to overlook.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2022
• And the coincidence of finding both while leaving a coffee shop?
  — Madalyn Mendoza, Axios, 13 Aug. 2024
• The reason why solar eclipses can occur at all is because of a line-of-sight coincidence.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2024
• Death has a strange way of making coincidence seem predictive.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• Meehan said that the entire group relished in the happy coincidence.
  — Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps the high-energy photon came from somewhere else, and its just-right arrival time was simply a coincidence.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
• And the connection to that particular part of the world is hardly a coincidence, either.
  — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• But these stories have more in common than uncanny coincidence and bumps in the night, says Alemany Bay.
  — Benjamin P. Russell, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• That Nadar was also a pioneer in balloon aviation is no coincidence.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 Aug. 2024
• This is no coincidence as Venus slips into Scorpio shortly after, urging you to go inward and bask in the beauty of your solitude.
  — Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
• Detecting cheating in chess is essentially measuring the likelihood that a player’s brilliant move is a coincidence.
  — Time, 3 Nov. 2022
• In a dark coincidence, the last season introduces an illness, which was written into the plot long before Applegate's diagnosis.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2022
• And the date of the wedding, 11/11, was a lucky coincidence.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• The timing of the fire turned out to be no coincidence.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Phil, the quieter of the pair, chalks it up to pure coincidence.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Of course a lot of that could be chalked up to just coincidence.
  — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
• See, the fact that the moon is the perfect size to cover up the face of the sun in the sky is a total coincidence.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• The man who filed the suit believes the timing isn't a coincidence.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• If two is a coincidence, and three’s a pattern, then four is a cry for help.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• So how much of this is coincidence and how much of it is inspired by Swift?
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• The mass grave and the presence of the bubonic plague, amazingly, may have just been a coincidence.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Hays didn’t feel like the buck’s daylight trek was a coincidence.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023
• By coincidence, their 1981 concert was at the same venue (then known as the San Diego Sports Arena).
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
• One time is nothing, twice is a coincidence, but three times is a trend.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024