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
• The Celtics are 12-6 since the start of April and have looked like a much more coherent team since the trade deadline.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2021
• The story at last would be coherent—and closer to the truth.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• Users of the tool claim to be able to write coherent essays and op-eds in seconds.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
• It’s all just a lot better and more coherent than the past two years.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• The great trick is to pull off something that is coherent.
  — Nate Sloan, Vulture, 10 May 2024
• There's been a lot of buzz about 5G over the last year—much of it, sadly, none too coherent.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
• But sometimes the worst thing a movie can be is coherent.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• On which side of the mirror, though, did life make more coherent sense?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
• David Lynch made one in the ’80s that’s a camp classic but struggles to stay coherent.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• The earth is ceasing to cohere: how to make that coherent?
  — Longreads, 3 May 2024
• There just aren’t very coherent messages coming out of the city about how to work with it.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• When the gain of a mode exceeds losses, the light emerges in a coherent beam, and the laser is said to oscillate in that mode.
  — Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024
• Strikingly, there is no coherent plan in the U.S. for any of those three things.
  — Andrew Blum, Popular Science, 8 Sep. 2020
• 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
• In the face of the Taliban advances, there doesn't appear to be a coherent strategy to turn the tide.
  — Melanie Zanona, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The early aughts marked the death rattle of a coherent zeitgeist.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
• What’s worse, the White House has failed to mount a coherent campaign to explain the stakes to the American people.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Instead, Nuno’s team put in a performance that seemed to lack a coherent plan.
  — Robert Kidd, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
• There's no coherent sense of space, and did somebody say Coolio?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2022
• Unifying it all into a coherent form, in life as in art, was the great challenge.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Martinez said Ruiz was coherent and answering questions afterward, but he was replaced by backup catcher Riley Adams for the remainder of the game.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 24 June 2025
• Democrats have struggled to create coherent anti-Trump messaging during his second Administration.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 July 2025