Sentence examples for congruous from inspiring English sources

"congruous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means consistent with or corresponding to something else. Here is an example sentence: "Anne's behavior was congruous with her kind and courteous personality."

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congruous

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Corresponding in character.

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The aim, for Magritte, was to mix his symbols and so chance upon congruous incongruities.

It fitted in with his idea of direct hits – a concept congruous with how Flowers writes his big, rousing songs: he wants to target his audience, hard.

Roy Moore and his defenders and apologists have been advancing the same argument — that God's laws (the Christian God's, that is) are the foundation for, and are therefore entirely congruous with, man-made American law.

You could not have constructed a more congruous core; although the team lacked a true superstar, Detroit's intelligence, selflessness and efficiency made it a thinking fan's champion on the court.

There was something both incongruous and congruous in the final resting spot for the shimmering American chronicler of corrosive glamour and crushed dreams: next to a busy highway peppered with tacky strip malls.

Second, in a country undergoing an uprising, there are often few laws or even a sense of decency, and if Formula One is meant to be a celebration of motor sport and a "social event" as the chairman of the Bahrain circuit, Zayed R. Alzayani, told BBC radio a few days ago, then the backdrop of a social uprising hardly seems congruous.

It does not contain the explicit playful or lyrical obscenity of earlier times, but rather a subtler incandescent or ecstatic range of congruous and incongruous, urban and pastoral imagery, and historical and mythological reference often grounded in near-recognizable autobiographical narrative.

Drawn from 16th-century Dalmatian sources, the work offers an unusually introspective view of the bloody biblical confrontation between Judith and Holofernes, one congruous with the festival's stated aim "to illuminate our larger interior universe".

For this article Johns has chosen to be referred to by masculine pronouns because they are congruous with his legal name and apparent gender; his identity, however, is female.

When we look for their interests, this is congruous with Sharia law," Abul-Futoh said.

He's had 50 years in politics to perfect the art of presenting incompatible positions as perfectly congruous, and with the exception of Peter Mandelson I can't think of any politician whose delight in his own mastery of the art is more palpable, or more languid.

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