congruous

How To Use congruous In A Sentence

• What wouldn't burn still remained: bare walls muffled with incongruous tapestries, flooring tamped over with carpets.
• Sometimes, with mechs, a smile could transform the face into something even less human—the expression somehow incongruous on the synthetic lips, a quaint and unsettling party trick, like a dog propped at the dinner table with a fork and spoon. Crashed
• But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk. Lone Star Planet
• Emma's miniskirt formed an incongruous addition to this parade of shapeless sack dresses, zip off trousers and sandals.
• It concluded in the somewhat incongruous pair attending the G8 together in June. Times, Sunday Times
• A camel watched them pass, incongruous and apparently unconcerned. Times, Sunday Times
• She was small and fragile and looked incongruous in an army uniform.
• Surely such an incongruous question was never put in an Arab town in the heart of Africa by a sheikh dressed in bernouse and turban, with a jewel-hilted yataghan at his side, sitting cross-legged on a cushion. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
• The alluring charm of the FA Cup has always been in its ability to throw up incongruous situations. Times, Sunday Times
• 'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5