How to Use coherent in a Sentence

coherent

adjective
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  • He proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
  • They are able to function as a coherent group.
  • Many of them will need to be dismantled once business travel comes back to return to a more coherent hub-and-spoke strategy.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Cooper pairs can all come together into a coherent quantum entity in a way that lone elections can’t.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Architecturally, losing the vista would have been a reasonable price for a more coherent design.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Cop to it, rather than always trying to present yourself as a seamlessly coherent narrative of mythology.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Cortés hopes other nations will be more cautious in their tone and coherent in conveying the message that vaccines are not an instant solution.
    — Luke Taylor, Scientific American, 5 May 2021
  • The action is mostly well-staged and coherent, even if frankly most of the best beats occur in the first act, leaving the bigger-scale but less creative set-pieces for the second half.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • When done right, the resulting models will merrily generate lots of coherent text or programming code when prompted.
    — Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • When questioned by the prosecution, Moseng explained that Floyd was compliant and coherent.
    — NBC News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • But after the brothers’ formative years, the pacing in Mufasa becomes choppier and less coherent.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • To be sure, even those close to Russia’s ruling elite sometimes caution against trying to identify a single coherent strategy in the Kremlin’s moves.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Manchester City and Bayern Munich, certainly, are more coherent, more complete teams.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Around the same time, the two major political parties began to become more ideologically coherent and started to move apart from each other, a process that has continued to this day.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Others wanted a coherent set of rules to be applied to the millions of people at the border.
    — Tim Kane, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022

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