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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Those numbers are not incompatible, as Musk seems to be talking about all accounts, while Twitter's 5 percent stat refers to accounts that are logged in and can see ads each day.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2022
• The Dolby Vision videos are in a new format that makes videos incompatible with playing on the computer or for use in a video editing program.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2020
• 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, 4 Apr. 2024
• But even considering small improvements like these, the aggressive growth Amazon has driven over the past few years is, in many ways, incompatible with sustainability.
  — Molly Taft, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024