Sentence examples for incongruous phrasing from inspiring English sources

If a person is claiming to be a native speaker, there may be occasional language oddities or incongruous phrasing that can alert you to this person not being a native speaker but trying to hide this fact.

It is a slightly incongruous phrase but nonetheless conveys the impression of an unfamiliar idiom.

He is poetic, lacing his dialogue with old-fashioned, incongruous phrases like "indeed", "do tell" and "I think not".

In the world of Instagram, where images are repurposed and given new contexts by adding incongruous phrases, rappers can make statements about other rappers through (albeit fairly heavy-handed) code.

Most of his songs are freestyles — real freestyles, the kind that are actually improvised — and when he fails to think of a clever rhyme, which is often, he revels in the awkward silence, or shouts an incongruous phrase, like "hundred thousand dollars".

Perhaps because it is aimed at younger children, the comedic aspects of the tale are overemphasised at the expense of the tragedy, resulting in some particularly incongruous phrases, such as 'they went off like rockets – rockets didn't exist at the time, of course, but just so you understand', which spoil the lavish operatic drama of the story.

The historic/modern distinction is also problematised by Francescho's incongruous catch-phrase, "just saying".

It may seem incongruous to see the phrase "showing respect for the audience" in a review of a production that includes dousing that same audience with (presumably fake) urine, but "666" does not play by the normal rules.

The result is incongruous; during the workshop phrases cropped up such as "resource envelope" and "cross cutting component", which must have been bewildering to Katine participants, especially those with little experience of development professionals.

Lemony Snicket frequently explains words and phrases in incongruous detail.

Harris has been, among other things, a stand-up comic, and it shows in his book, in lively phrases and an ear for the incongruous.