non sequiturin a sentence
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The story may sound like a non sequitur, but bear with me, and you'll see how it shines light on the issue.
non sequitur = something said that does not logically follow from what preceded it
- This non sequitur disoriented Wang.† (source)
- The person questioned smiles beatifically and responds in some non sequitur that would make the babble of the Web's worst village idiot seem like sage aphorisms in comparison.† (source)
- No stream of non sequiturs and jangled prose.† (source)
- This is a non sequitur that has been nibbling on the edges of Hiro's mind for the last ten minutes: Laser light has a particular kind of gritty intensity, a molecular purity reflecting its origins.† (source)
- LuLing often issued what they considered non sequiturs, as free-floating as dust motes.† (source)
- Molly has gotten used to this kind of non sequitur.† (source)
- Uncle Jack, I think you've made a non sequitur but I'm not at all positive.† (source)
- Non sequiturs often catch the unwary off guard.† (source)
- He saw too much," I say, still thinking about the impasse, but DeWeese looks puzzled and John doesn't register at all, and I realize the non sequitur too late.† (source)
- You keep talking in non sequiturs.† (source)
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- Everyone in the Glass family—Zooey certainly not least—was familiar with this sort of non-sequitur from Mrs. Glass.† (source)
- No non sequiturs, three-two, one game all.† (source)
- After saying this I simply cannot tell whether her words make up a non sequitur or not, when she replies in the most desolate voice I've ever heard, "But oh, Stingo, you can't imagine what it's like to grow up in a Jewish family."† (source)
- "Indispensable" as strictly applied to captive human beings at Auschwitz would be a non sequitur.† (source)
- Alfred scolds me, every time we meet; and he has the better of me, I grant,—for he really does something; his life is a logical result of his opinions and mine is a contemptible non sequitur.† (source)
- —"Excuse me there, Mr Serjeant," quoth Partridge, "that's a non sequitur."† (source)
- I did not mean to abuse the cloth; I only said your conclusion was a non sequitur.† (source)
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