How to Use coherence in a Sentence

coherence

noun
Definition of coherencenext
Synonyms for coherencenext
  • But the film looses coherence and urgency on the dark side of the moon.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The World Cup gives me that coherence every four years.
    — Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The biggest issue feels like a lack of any kind of coherence.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • But those tweaks are at the expense of coherence and the work’s refined lyricism.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
  • To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Amid the chaotic present, the past offers escape, a sense of coherence.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • These details are well known; the scale suggests a coherence of intent that no state in the West achieved.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Amid lots of energy and sometimes little coherence, here were the highs and lows from the evening.
    — Vulture, 12 June 2023
  • There’s a coherence in it all, because DeLillo laid it all out for me.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
  • But the willful swirl and the withholding of coherence are too extreme here.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
  • As in the first leg, the sense was of a slightly frantic, chaotic game, lacking the coherence or fluency of the very best sides.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The structure, both stylized and raw, sometimes cries out for a bit more coherence.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Zabriskie's shriek wraps the pilot on a new level of fear beyond coherence.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • That is what short coherence feels like with a deep quantum circuit.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • The pictogram people were great, the drones were weird, but in total there was very little coherence to the whole program.
    — Jackson McHenry and Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • In fact, many of the show’s men, when they are agitated, speak like children: their words forced out by the pressure of need, right on the edge of coherence.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • The effect was to impart a new, all-singing, all-dancing dramatic coherence to the form.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • And then after the pandemic starts, there hasn’t been any coherence.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • But his talent may be for coherence and a sense of proportion, of playing in space.
    — Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Yet in the growing strength and coherence of climate protests, something did change discernibly in 2019.
    — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
  • At this point, there is no discipline and no coherence. . .
    — Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • On the page, however, his flights lack the same coherence and emotional depth.
    — Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Nadella wants a fresh start, with coherence across all product lines.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Hildur singing lullabies to Björk as a child, Hildur losing coherence on her deathbed.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • That is also why for many of us, these recent mass shootings elude coherence.
    — Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But objects, whether tables or notebooks or aprons, can be tethers—to the past, to the stories people have told, to coherence.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • That to-and-fro, in my work, of coherence and incoherence interests me a lot.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 18 June 2023
  • No one defended Trump on the merits, on the facts—not with any conviction or coherence.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2019
  • It not only maps onto our intellect as a joke does, or our emotions as a rant does, but gives us a sense of truth and coherence.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 12 June 2017
  • The party may also face a test of its own internal coherence.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020

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