On this page you'll find 7 example sentences with Incongruously. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Incongruously meaning
In an incongruous manner.
Using Incongruously
- The main meaning on this page is: In an incongruous manner.
- In the example corpus, incongruously often appears in combinations such as: an incongruously.
Context around Incongruously
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incongruously
- In this selection, "incongruously" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perhaps, flourish, somewhat, sardonic, exciting and hangar stand out and add context to how "incongruously" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include brilliant flourish incongruously labeling itself and calypsos with incongruously sardonic lyrics. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incongruously" sits close to words such as abdali, abdelfattah and abdulazeez, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incongruously
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When an incongruously modern, shiny Land Rover rolls into frame, the disparity is only emphasised. (15 words)
Afterwards, I ended up in Sunny's Sports Bar - in an incongruously hangar-like building off Towyn Road. (18 words)
The project, perhaps incongruously, finds itself at Disney following the company’s recent acquisition of the now-defunct 21st Century Fox. (21 words)
Her skin reacted to the elements but she had arresting blue eyes and her only make-up, a slash of pink lipstick, made her incongruously exciting. (26 words)
Decked out in goofy headpieces such as a lampshade and a traffic cone, the congregants follow Bokonon in singing jaunty calypsos with incongruously sardonic lyrics. (25 words)
Somewhat incongruously, when entering Lexington-Fayette the highway signs read "Fayette County" while most signs leading into Louisville-Jefferson simply read "Welcome to Louisville Metro". (25 words)
Example sentences (7)
Decked out in goofy headpieces such as a lampshade and a traffic cone, the congregants follow Bokonon in singing jaunty calypsos with incongruously sardonic lyrics.
Her skin reacted to the elements but she had arresting blue eyes and her only make-up, a slash of pink lipstick, made her incongruously exciting.
Afterwards, I ended up in Sunny's Sports Bar - in an incongruously hangar-like building off Towyn Road.
The project, perhaps incongruously, finds itself at Disney following the company’s recent acquisition of the now-defunct 21st Century Fox.
When an incongruously modern, shiny Land Rover rolls into frame, the disparity is only emphasised.
You can scoff at this, but you’d be missing the business’s most brilliant flourish: incongruously labeling itself as a museum.
Somewhat incongruously, when entering Lexington-Fayette the highway signs read "Fayette County" while most signs leading into Louisville-Jefferson simply read "Welcome to Louisville Metro".
Common combinations with incongruously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an incongruously 2×