How to Use coherent in a Sentence

coherent

adjective
  • He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
  • They are able to function as a coherent group.
  • The songs of each of our eras make up a coherent album.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
  • David Lynch made one in the ’80s that’s a camp classic but struggles to stay coherent.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But mostly what the movie needs is a more coherent story.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
  • But in private some were scathing about the lack of a coherent strategy on Iran.
    Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Haley said video of the encounter showed that Brooks was coherent.
    Austin Mullen, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Maybe not, and maybe no one cares if this jumble of amusing parts makes a coherent whole.
    Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Others wanted a coherent set of rules to be applied to the millions of people at the border.
    Tim Kane, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Defining any kind of era implies that the era may at some point come to a close and make way for another coherent stretch of time.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Now the two are melding their systems to produce a coherent system at Auburn.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The United States has no coherent system of long-term care, mostly a patchwork.
    Jordan Rau, Fortune Well, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Screen content can be swiped across to a display for the passenger, and the graphics are coherent and crisply designed.
    WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
  • On top of that, going in with a coherent plan may minimize time spent figuring out your next steps on the fly.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The thought process was far more coherent and challenging coming out of America at the time.
    Vulture, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The specifics of who killed whom aren’t always apparent or, for that matter, coherent.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Coming up with coherent messaging about a change of heart in this regard could be tricky.
    Dana Hull, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But nobody cracks a case, or tells a very coherent or useful story.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Hoping to zap the invaders with a coherent beam of green light that deeply annoys the birds, biologist Tim Shields took aim.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But at his discharge in August, the city’s lack of a coherent treatment system became clear.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Their clients love the changes to their home, calling it cozy, coherent, uncluttered, and connected.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • At the moment, more than two dozen pieces, four tables of accessories, and a cast of models must be matched and gathered into a coherent whole.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
  • One is probably most urgently to unite the tours so that there can be more coherent and sort of aligned interests.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In the last year, as crypto regulation stalled in Congress, many have come to regard the DFS as one of the few offices at any level with a coherent plan.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 11 May 2023
  • The goal is first to find the puzzle pieces and then to assemble them into something resembling a coherent picture.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The video had no coherent story — a cow wandering around a conference room?
    Richard Blade, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The coherent theme Wednesday is mutual respect between the teams, and the Nuggets watched closely as the Heat dissected the Celtics with teamwork and chemistry.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Nor, for that matter, can Manchin, who’s seldom coherent about anything.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 June 2023
  • It’s not so much a coherent ideology as a feeling that great faceless forces are pushing down upon us all the time.
    Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022

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