How to Use coherence in a Sentence

coherence

noun
  • But the film looses coherence and urgency on the dark side of the moon.
    Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • But the willful swirl and the withholding of coherence are too extreme here.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2021
  • That is what short coherence feels like with a deep quantum circuit.
    Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • The World Cup gives me that coherence every four years.
    Julia Cho, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Amid the chaotic present, the past offers escape, a sense of coherence.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Amid lots of energy and sometimes little coherence, here were the highs and lows from the evening.
    Vulture, 12 June 2023
  • Zabriskie's shriek wraps the pilot on a new level of fear beyond coherence.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The structure, both stylized and raw, sometimes cries out for a bit more coherence.
    Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The party may also face a test of its own internal coherence.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Nadella wants a fresh start, with coherence across all product lines.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But his talent may be for coherence and a sense of proportion, of playing in space.
    Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The midfielders worked extremely hard to add to this coherence.
    Brent Kennedy, Howard County Times, 12 Dec. 2017
  • That is also why for many of us, these recent mass shootings elude coherence.
    Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023
  • To be sure, there is little coherence to the backlash against EVs.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And then after the pandemic starts, there hasn’t been any coherence.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2020
  • On the page, however, his flights lack the same coherence and emotional depth.
    Park MacDougald, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The lack of coherence seems to have cost it significant voter support.
    Aytug Sasmaz, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
  • 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
  • Manning sat silent for almost a full minute before mustering the coherence to say thank you.
    Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
  • Design can help bring coherence to the chaos of our hyper-connected world.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • At this point, there is no discipline and no coherence. . .
    Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
  • Answers have been lightly edited for flow and coherence.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Memory is what gives a nation its self-image and its sense of unity and coherence.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Oct. 2019
  • People have accused her of being all over the place, but there is this remarkable coherence.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
  • But critics have also weaponized their emotional states to argue against the coherence of their minds and their movement.
    Isabel Fattal, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2018
  • One reason for this coherence is the new machinery of government.
    The Economist, 6 June 2020

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