How to Use incompatible in a Sentence

incompatible

adjective

• This printer is incompatible with some PCs.
• The act, also known as the Williamson Act, can include a fee for the incompatible structures built on the land.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Gone are the days where your only cat tree options are bulky and incompatible with the rest of your decor.
  — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 3 Oct. 2022
• Due to the 3/8-inch chuck, the driver is incompatible with some larger bits.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2023
• That's when my doctor told me the news, that this baby was incompatible with life.
  — Adrienne Broaddus and Jason Kravarik, CNN, 1 July 2022
• There’s never a bad client, just one whose chemistry and makeup are incompatible with the coach.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• What To Watch For If the national parties determine the change is incompatible with their rules, the state could be forced to amend the law or face sanctions.
  — Andrew Solender, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• There are ways for free-time-incompatible partners to stay close.
  — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2020
• In Congo, the desire for a strong leader and faith in freedom are not incompatible.
  — Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2024
• The phone acts as a real-time bridge between two incompatible realities — the war in Ukraine and home.
  — Erika Kinetz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Soon after tying the knot, the actress realized that the duo were incompatible in more ways than one.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• The most fundamental threat to the success of any Putin-Biden talks is the incompatible nature of the two sides' positions.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Phillips sees support for Trump as incompatible with the district and says Qualls' attacks distort his record of working across the aisle.
  — Torey Van Oot Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Give your dog an enrichment item that is incompatible with barking, that keeps their mouth busy, like a Kong or lick mat.
  — Hannah Harper, Health.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Jakubowska says the use of such technologies is likely to be incompatible with the EU’s stance on human rights.
  — Matt Burgess, Wired, 9 July 2021
• But at the heart of it lies the fact that there are simply incompatible visions of where the world is going and should be going in Washington and Beijing and so forth.
  — CBS News, 9 Sep. 2020
• The pair fail to reconcile their incompatible goals for the future and break up at prom, leaving viewers gutted by what seemed to be a fiery and final end to Joey and Pacey.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2022
• What our Christian faith tells us is that, this was a disastrous error, incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• There is no right or wrong on this — these are two different, and incompatible, core desires.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
• The New York Times suggesting that belief in evolution might be incompatible with the Catholic faith.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• The problem was that those metals were not stable in air and were incompatible with many other compounds.
  — John Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Too big and expensive for scouting and incompatible with the SM-6, the near-shore warships have nothing to add to the new sensor-missile network.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• All the atoms must match, which is why allowing incompatible atoms to leave is so critical.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2020
• But who’s to say a bit of woo is incompatible with psychology?
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 3 Oct. 2024
• This is one way to sidestep the problem of incompatible older hardware.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022
• At first glance, Douglas would appear to be of a generation and a mindset incompatible with Lennon and Ono.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024
• Many of the industry’s luminaries have explained to me all the ways that unions are incompatible with their practices.
  — David Adjaye, Curbed, 6 July 2023
• At 18 weeks pregnant, the couple said they were told the fetus had multiple anomalies that were incompatible with life.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Lying to others, Kant wrote, prevents them from making choices based on the truth, which is incompatible with friendship and love.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022
• Sure, spy shows can feel like a lot, with morally murky characters and endless twists and double-crosses that demand a level of attention incompatible with folding laundry or cooking spaghetti.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024