Incoherent

"Incoherent" in a Sentence (23 examples)

That person's accent is incoherent to me.

Listening to the orator's incoherent ramblings was excruciating.

These words are sure to be the incoherent ramblings of a madman.

A thousand incoherent ideas swirled around my mind.

The foreigner answered with a long, incoherent sentence.

Sami appeared to be pretty incoherent.

As I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.

Tom's uncle is always going off on incoherent rants about participation trophies.

Without the knowledge we have today about viruses, the medical response to the 1793 contagion, one of a series that swept 18th and 19th century America prompting the Yellow Fever to be nicknamed "the American Plague," was incoherent and ineffective.

The ramblings are incoherent words from someone who is sick or depressed, that he mumbles while awake.

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When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.

After just a few drinks, he becomes incoherent.

By which thus still ouermuch busying your selfe in matters passing your skill, it maketh you so forgetfull, that oftentimes you are faine to vtter matters incoherent, and much contradictorie.

1765, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses, London: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Book 4, Section 4, p. 103, note z, […] this historian of men and manners goes on in the same rambling incoherent manner […]

[…] the big dark dining table twinkled here and there in the small candle-light; the pictures on the wall, all of them very brown, looked vague and incoherent.

It was as if he was in fear of being swamped, rendered incoherent, by the sheer marvelousness of what he was relating.

The historian […] is a sort of novelist, but one who instead of inventing plot and character is obliged to discover them; who instead of setting characters in motion against one another with foreknowledge of their natures and destinies tries to guess at what often incoherent characters were up to amid a distraction of lies and suppressions.

[…] Some hasty and undigested Thoughts, on a Subject I had never before considered, which I set down against our next Meeting, gave the first entrance into this Discourse, which having been thus begun by Chance, was continued by Intreaty; written by incoherent parcels; and, after long intervals of neglect, resum'd again, as my Humour or Occasions permitted; and at last, in a retirement, where an Attendence on my Health gave me leisure, it was brought into that order thou now seest it.

That Sand-Stone does not still consolidate: i.e. that Matter which was, a few Years ago, lax, incoherent, and in form of Earth, or of Sand, does not become daily more hard and consistent, and by little and little acquire a perfect Solidity, and so turn to Stone; as others have asserted.

[…] sooner, may all the Material World crumble into Incoherent Atoms, or relapse into the Abyss of Nothingness, than that any Conclusion, thus deduced, can be False […]

At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.

[…] because I am an American writer my subject and my material inevitably has to be a handful of incoherent people in an incoherent country.

I was glad, now, to be out of Karhide, an incoherent land driven towards violence by a paranoid, pregnant king and an egomaniac Regent.

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