Sentence examples for incongruous items from inspiring English sources

The most incongruous items in the airy room are the pleasantest -- oversize reproduction Windsor armchairs that afford a degree of comfort rare in restaurants.

But Fahmy's family said they had lost faith in the legal process after an initial trial that used, among other incongruous items, a song by the Australian singer-songwriter Gotye as evidence.

Filled with unexpected displays of seemingly incongruous items — colorful Hella Jongerius ceramics, Maarten Baas chairs, 18th-century ceramics — the store, which he ran with his partner, Franklin Getchell, between 1994 and 2012, was a unique, avant-garde treasure trove that set new precedents in retail.

"What recalls Magritte in Gober's work is not just the juxtaposition of incongruous items, but also the obsessive attention to the material qualities of things and the revelation of an ominous aura surrounding everyday objects.

Most of the art is 20th century, although there is the odd incongruous item.

Toilet paper might at first seem like an incongruous item for the hit list, but it is there as part of an all-out assault on the entire paper industry, a big employer in Wisconsin and other parts of the Midwest.

Lemony Snicket frequently explains words and phrases in incongruous detail.

Mr. Cee's theme seemed like an incongruous list of people and items until I saw the one thing they had in common: they all SHARE A CAB.

In particular, the N400 components are enlarged to words that are semantically unrelated to or incongruous with the context provided by preceding items in a sentence.

The more engaging (and incongruous) the mnemonic we employ for an item, the easier it is for us to retrieve it.

Gruys also argued in her Salon piece that the public outrage over Abercrombie's policies is incongruous with our general lack of outrage over so-called "vanity sizing," where companies lower the numbered size of clothing items without actually changing the measurements.