Sample Sentences for
coherent
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    She is more coherent now than she was just after the accident an hour ago.
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    There is no coherent government policy, in America or anywhere else in the world.  (source)
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    I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I've got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever?  (source)
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    He'll be incoherent by the time we reach the Capitol.  (source)
    incoherent = unable to think logically
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherent means not and reverses the meaning of coherent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But she sounds coherent--not like a lot of people who've been calling today.  (source)
    coherent = sensible (able to think and express herself clearly)
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    "Fire!" she whispered incoherently.  (source)
    incoherently = in an unclear manner (not understandable to others)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherently means not and reverses the meaning of coherently. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    He'd try to bring the night into focus, willing coherence, but the effort would only cause distortions.  (source)
    coherence = logical consistency (in what he saw)
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    At the time, there would only be incoherence.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherence means not and reverses the meaning of coherence. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It was difficult to think or write coherently.  (source)
    coherently = in a sensible and clear manner
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    I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing toward the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherency means not and reverses the meaning of coherency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    I couldn't exactly talk with any coherency, or do sports, or show any talent for anything.†  (source)
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    At these passionate interjections, mere incoherences to the listener as yet unapprised of the antecedents, the Surgeon was profoundly discomposed.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incoherences means not and reverses the meaning of coherences. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    After a brief, semicoherent discussion, Gau, Mingma, and Ngima continued down.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semicoherent means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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