How To Use Incongruously In A Sentence
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It turned out I was wrong - it was just yet another lanky type dressed incongruously in white shirt, blazer and jeans, and sporting that trademark upper-class floppy hair.
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Prime minister's questions is principally for backbenchers, he said incongruously.
Trouble in the House: is a bitter class divide fuelling David Cameron's dislike of Commons Speaker John Bercow?
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They weren't the pot-bellied kind, more the underwear-model kind; tanned, perspiring, incongruously foppish hair, stubbled, one of them hanging off the end of a smoke, in dark blue cargo pants, boots, tool belts and nothing else.
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He supplied us with fragments of griff as war news is incongruously termed in prison dialect.
Work Camp 10760 L
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A motorcycle and sidecar stood somewhat incongruously outside a yurt, a large domed tent constructed of sections of felt stitched over a framework of laths.
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Based, quite incongruously, in the U.K, this company has a staff of 18 analysts who break down every game.
It's the Offensive Line, Stupid
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My favourite old building is the splendid 1825 crescent of houses that sits incongruously on the front.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was still a set of those fascinating volumes on the living-room bookshelves , incongruously kept upright by a bookend of Beethoven at his piano.
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In many districts, the only things still standing after the December 26 quake were the palm and eucalyptus trees, incongruously sprouting amid the piles of bricks and twisted metal.
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Every station is embellished and decorated: delicate stars and hammers and sickles somewhat incongruously scattered about as decorative motifs.
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Somewhat incongruously, and much to Plater's displeasure, for financing reasons the serial was divided into seven parts rather six, which inevitably unbalances the symmetry of the story.
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A constant motif is a flashback to a field of wheat, interposed suddenly and incongruously in various scenes.
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A number of labels showed flashy pieces that looked like eveningwear, in shiny Lurex, sequins, metallic paillettes and crushed velvet, but paired them — sometimes incongruously — with down-to-earth daywear.
Glamour Amid the Gloom
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After retiring from athletics, Moses flirted, incongruously, with bobsledding.
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his shirttails stuck out from his tuxedo pants somewhat incongruously
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Only now they were incongruously dressed in sheepskin jackets and short skirts.
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Incongruously, The Lost World is located in a bowling alley in a retail park on the outskirts of Croydon.
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Meticulously he searched the garage, spotting the clapped-out beetle ' incongruously sitting beside a spruce new Japanese Subaru.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The incongruously named Bermuda grass and Kentucky bluegrass, for example (the first is native to Africa, the second to the Middle East), became so common they're considered native grasses by many.
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It is conspicuously silly in places, with a chorus of Belfast millies incongruously inserted into the midst of the classical melodramatic and stylised family angst.
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Incongruously, Myrmothera was separated from Grallaria and Thamnocharis on the basis of the absence of rictal bristles; but Hylopezus, which also lacks rictal bristles, was included in Grallaria.
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Feel free to leave your thoughts and comments below – and follow me on Twitter at @RichardA1.35pm: Shortly after Bialek's press conference on Monday, Herman Cain appeared – rather incongruously – on comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night chatshow.
Herman Cain addresses accusations: as it happened
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Hollywood - the cesspit that is poisoning the world via cultural globalisation - has incongruously produced what may well be the most devotional work of art in this decade.
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Some thuwar revolutionaries came into the museum," she says, but they damaged only the exhibits in the six galleries devoted to Gadhafi and smashed the windows of two of Gadhafi's cars that are incongruously exhibited among Roman artifacts in one of the main galleries on the ground floor.
After Gadhafi, Hope for Modernity
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The scar from his surgery traces an incongruously straight line across the contours of his tiny frame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gonggrijp incongruously has pushed for a return to paper ballots.
Dan Rather: Digital Democracy in Doubt
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Somewhat incongruously she also described the amusements of the respectable ladies and gentlemen of Deadwood, happily recalling picnics, tennis games, church socials, sleighing parties, and balls.
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He was an adapt in the irony of incongruously grouping.
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Instead, we look upon a bewildered bear dressed incongruously in a white shirt with cuff links.
Times, Sunday Times
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It towered incongruously high above modest semi-detached roofs, built on a peculiar design which blended elements of many different ages and cultures in a bizarre heterogeneous mix.
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As Perry inched backwards a huge voice, it’s tone incongruously warm and reasonable, boomed from the face.
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There was loud, incongruously happy-sounding music blaring from a large loudspeaker just outside the front gate.
Dr. Jon LaPook: Dispatch From Haiti: "Controlled Chaos" of Cholera
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He was, incongruously, an incurable gossip, careful to label rumour for what it was, but fascinated by it…
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(Then cut to one of those incongruously cheerful CW "Happy Halloween" promos for the show, where Wise tries to outgrin a jack-o-lantern while Perry Como croons about the most wonderful time of the year.)
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Harrell was wearing a fawn overcoat, incongruously citified.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Most of Batuman's chapters describe some bizarre trek she gruelingly undertook (easily financed by gullible graduate funders), yet she confoundingly, incongruously speaks against this very form of research early in the book, thus, nothing or everything adding up in the end:
The Possessed : Academics Going to the Trades
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A forlorn pair of chromed handle bars stuck incongruously out from under the massive front roller.
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The scar from his surgery traces an incongruously straight line across the contours of his tiny frame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every station is embellished and decorated: delicate stars and hammers and sickles somewhat incongruously scattered about as decorative motifs.
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But judicious," Natalenko squeaked, in the high eunuchoid voice that came so incongruously from his bulk.
Lone Star Planet
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As all this is explained to me in an incongruously cheerful manner, the beeps matching my heart rate go up a bit.
Discourse.net: 2010 - the Year of the Beeps - Part Five
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My favourite old building is the splendid 1825 crescent of houses that sits incongruously on the front.
Times, Sunday Times
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It squatted incongruously among the trees, looking like a visitor from another planet.
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They looked incongruously, almost insultingly, festive as they bounced against each other in the breeze.
RESCUING ROSE
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Given the pace of cultural change in the helter-skelter postwar boom, it would be an incongruously long reign.
Splatter-Day Saints
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Yes, George W. Bush famously, and incongruously, uttered those famous words, "you're doing a heck of a job, Brownie" during a tour of damage in the Gulf Coast in 2005.
Michael D. Brown: Heckuva' Job, Brownie. Get Over It.
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Given the pace of cultural change in the helter-skelter postwar boom, it would be an incongruously long reign.
Splatter-Day Saints
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Instead, we look upon a bewildered bear dressed incongruously in a white shirt with cuff links.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the Trinity House record it appears that Prickett was "a land man put in by the Adventurers"; and in the court records he is described, most incongruously, as a "haberdasher" -- facts which place him, as his own very remarkable narrative places him, on a level much above that of the ordinary seamen of Hudson's time.
Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements
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Each time a whiny pop tune unceremoniously and semi-incongruously intrudes upon the soundtrack, we passively accept the meretriciously commercial reasons for the tune's existence.
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There it is!" she exclaims, pointing to a dark blob, perched incongruously halfway along the main girder supporting the rig's permanently burning gas flare.
A working life: The gas rig technician
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Already, looking down at the piles of papers on his desk, then back up at Ruby with quick, almost silvery eyes set incongruously in a pouchy, sallow face, he seemed ready to ask her to leave his office.
DIAMOND RUBY
