How to Use incongruity in a Sentence

incongruity

noun

• Their brain will see the incongruity and demand to know more.
  — Pia Silva, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• This is a show to be savored for its thrills and chills and, like a dream, for its sheer incongruity.
  — David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
• And what about that ace of spades found on the U.N. chief’s body—a signal, an omen or just an incongruity?
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• Ji-Yoon and Bill aren’t at that level of incongruity by any means.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• And when Steve sent back that caption, just the incongruity of the frankness of her response killed me.
  — Donald Liebenson, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2020
• My eyes met Bridie’s across the bed and a bubble of laughter rose up in the back of my mouth at the incongruity of the remark.
  — Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
• Despite the incongruity of his wardrobe and words, the cable-news set was now his work space, Berman and Keilar his colleagues.
  — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• Take that incongruity as fair warning for the blarney that lies ahead.
  — Ron Charles, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
• What caught the eye most, perhaps, was the incongruity between the work and its location.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• The incongruity was enough to remind a viewer of The Maverick.
  — Hazlitt, 17 May 2023
• But there is blatant incongruity and hypocrisy in the findings of MLB’s report and the discipline that has been doled out.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
• The incongruity was that the team with the best collection of young arms wound up entrusting Year 1 in SunTrust Park to some old ones.
  — Mark Bradley, ajc, 6 June 2017
• The incongruity of that European tragedy is hard to fathom.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• In The Idiot, the jokes come often and freely, and are propelled not through punchlines but the incongruities of everyday life.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• Not that this seeming incongruity was the only aspect of the night that deserved such a response.
  — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• This incongruity feels both more profound and more pervasive by the day.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2017
• The aspect that throws people off is the incongruity between the dish and what many consider a salad.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• Before the attack, Martin, with her long blond hair and French accent, seems to relish her incongruity on the steppe.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2021
• Here only two stick out, with songs built to take advantage of their incongruity.
  — Clayton Purdom, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• To say the project has strange timing understates its sheer incongruity.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• In the study, Herrero wanted to find out if there were incongruities in the rates at which bikers and hikers had bear encounters.
  — Nick Mott, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2019
• Somehow, though, the incongruity works, and the game remains enjoyable to look at throughout.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2022
• There is a profound incongruity between the pride the former president takes in his record and his loathing of the public servants who built it.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
• Kozma set it in present times without too many incongruities.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023
• The incongruity between the worlds can’t last forever, of course — it’s a conceit that would wear thin pretty quickly.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
• However, the choir brings up an incongruity in the production.
  — OregonLive.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• No doubt all art, low and high, has something of this appetite for felicitous incongruity, the shuffle and the surprise.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Wallace Line runs through Asia and Australia, and shows an incongruity in the dispersion of animal species on either side.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
• Although in fairness, a big part of journalism is trying to balance arrogance, doubt and self-loathing and channeling the incongruity into your work.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2024
• But overall in the popular media, nowadays, there are few hosts or comedians who understand incongruity and irony.
  — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024