Sample Sentences forincongruity (auto-selected)
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I still haven't flinched, though I'm desperately trying to process the incongruity.† (source)
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Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others.† (source)
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We emphasized the incongruity of not allowing children to smoke, drink, vote, drive without restrictions, give blood, buy guns, and a range of other behaviors because of their well-recognized lack of maturity and judgment while simultaneously treating some of the most at-risk, neglected, and impaired children exactly the same as full-grown adults in the criminal justice system.† (source)
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The incongruity was startling.† (source)
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After a few seconds, I was able to bite through it, and I closed my eyes, trying to ignore the scent of clean male, the feel of his skin against mine, the incongruity of what I was doing.† (source)
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I stopped here, letting the words take shape and sequence, my hand around Donna's ankle, and I sensed a certain receptiveness, a thing I needed to beat back the incongruity.† (source)
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Strange incongruity in a State called free!† (source)
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The only incongruities on this striking corporal were his hands—huge, brutish, animal things that one man would liken to paws.† (source)
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Nor, strictly investigated, is there any incongruity in this comparison.† (source)
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Rachel continued to be happy, involved with life, only slightly confused by the incongruities which faced her each morning when she awoke.† (source)
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"And what reason is that?" asked Hester, half smiling at the absurd incongruity of the child's observation; but on second thoughts turning pale.† (source)
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As a consequence there is little uniformity in the spelling of Sherpa words or names; Tengboche, for instance, is written variously as Tengpoche or Thyangboche, and similar incongruities crop up in spelling most other Sherpa words.† (source)
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But the trouble was the blank incongruity of this serenity and the swift death flying yonder, not two miles away.† (source)
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All his letters show is an enormous confusion of contradictions and incongruities and divergences and exceptions to any rule he formulated about the things he observed.† (source)
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In addition to the incongruity of Austrians walking through Rome in swords and plumes, they would need us-you and me-to help them conquer France and Greece, and if we didn't want to help, they would chase us down and shoot us.† (source)
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He observed with the eye of an accountant, with unassailable accuracy but no interest in the delicious, gossipy detail, or the incongruities or neuroses of the characters he so drily introduced.† (source)
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