How to Use discordant in a Sentence

discordant

adjective

• She has the difficult task of bringing together a number of discordant elements.
• At first, the sound was discordant, a mixture of yells and whistles and the general chaos of the crowd.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
• The only discordant note was a dead cow stinking up the trail.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Fox News streamed the event, and on YouTube the comments that coursed down the right of the video expressed what might be called discordant support.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 June 2018
• But the film ends on a tendentious and discordant note that detracts from the whole.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
• Though there are faults to be found on this ground too; namely, the discordant, jaunty score grates.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• The young stunner from Chicago linked up with the alt-pop princess for a discordant bit of growling bass.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2017
• Still, something about the two together seemed discordant to me — the mild, slightly pasty pea with the cool-on-the-tongue fresh mint.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• Odhiambo’s one discordant note came in the third quarter when the Chiefs’ Chris Jones beat him for a sack of Wilson.
  — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• But do the Dodgers really want to set this discordant tone?
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• But for one asset class, that discordant note was music to the ears: Chinese bonds, which are on a tear.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• This is a beautiful and discordant, sweet and angry piece of music, out of body and out of time.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 5 July 2018
• In the eighties and nineties, young and discordant indie-rock bands were equally shaped by the Stooges’ music.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• This word choice brings out a problem that shows up early in the book: discordant language.
  — Randall Stross, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• This has made for the one discordant note in the otherwise over-the-moon reception by the Left of the president’s State of the Union address.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the midst of this, however, a discordant sound could be heard, as visiting Chelsea fans chimed in with a chant of their own.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• Except for his neck tattoo of a lizard, which — even more so than his arm tattoo of a rat — struck a discordant note.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• On July 21, discordant hordes dressed in hot pink or black flocked to theaters.
  — Sasha Richie, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Remain conscious of the discordant seeds your mom plants.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Their busy schedules pulled them back to the routine of discordant desires.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Still, there are a few slightly discordant pieces that could’ve used some smoothing.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
• One discordant element of the styling is the large, black plastic liners that ring around the wheel openings.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2021
• The deafening song of cicadas or the discordant croaking of frogs.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
• But when his words just sit there, between hardcovers on a stark white page, their discordant notes are hard to bear.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The series gave fans a nice world where discordant high school cliques found harmony.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• Some of the songs are raw or discordant, but Donicht says they are crafted to reveal harmony.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
• His message also is discordant with those coming from Mr. Trump, who has cast the midterms as a test of his first two years in office.
  — Fox News, 12 Oct. 2018
• The coal miner has come to occupy a mythic—if discordant—place in Pruitt’s EPA.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
• The phrase is used to describe when a creative work has gone too far in introducing new ideas that are discordant with its initial premise.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
• Batiste told IndieWire that the sharp, sometimes discordant, sometimes howling cues could still work hand-in-hand with the film’s sound design and editing rhythm because the point was never to have every element in the film line up neatly.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024