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.
• The color blue shows up too many times in history to be a coincidence.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
• How does a coincidence like that happen if the universe isn't kind of looking out for you?
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 17 Jan. 2022
• By coincidence, Wise had a brother, Dennis, who knew how to sing like Elvis.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2022
• The decision to expand the pool of workers getting restricted stock that vests over time, is no coincidence.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• On the surface, the parallels are awe-inspiring, as surface coincidences can be.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
• Woe betide the author who, whether by design or coincidence, must compete with another when their two books cover the same subject on roughly the same publication date.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• The timing of Russia’s troop mobilization is perhaps no coincidence.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• More research is needed to determine if the mass vaccinations are causing the AIV to evolve faster or if this is simply a coincidence.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• And the date of the wedding, 11/11, was a lucky coincidence.
  — Sadiba Hasan, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• As the adage goes, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• 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
• The hues of said knit—red, blue, and white—was no coincidence.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2022
• 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
• So, are all the deaths around her a coincidence, or just bad luck?
  — Emma Steele, CBS News, 6 May 2022
• From the crosstown coincidences to the closing-soon, here are our top picks.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
• But the coincidence of the show’s timing with the invasion of Ukraine is just that.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 20 Mar. 2022
• If two is a coincidence, and three’s a pattern, then four is a cry for help.
  — Vulture, 27 Jan. 2023
• The timing of the Tigers’ trip to Israel, then, is no coincidence.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 9 May 2022
• And yet, by way of grim coincidence, the old and new get about the same observed gas mileage, in the neighborhood of 11-13 mpg.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• And the revival of the shearling coat is no coincidence.
  — Lina-Marie Baatz, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
• And for sure, there’s a good measure of coincidence in the way the returns line up so neatly over these periods.
  — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
• By a strange coincidence, a huge percentage of the winners had also bought display ads in the magazine.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 24 Feb 2025