Incongruent Sentence Examples

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  • But if it gives an indication of the range of approaches, how can we reconcile such apparently incongruent perspectives?

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  • This type of provision seemed so incongruent to the needs of our patients.

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  • The poet takes great joy in parsing together seemingly disparate words and evoking a sundry whole, a demulcent of the seemingly incongruent.

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  • Telling a lie is usually incongruent to a person's cognitive pattern, and for this reason it is not surprising that a physical response - no matter how subtle - is usually present.

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