Sentence examples for slightly incongruous from inspiring English sources

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The company's tablet has been a slightly incongruous success.

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

The Living Nativity scene, a theatrical tradition introduced eight centuries ago, remains unchanged as the show's slightly incongruous finale.

The six glittering onion-domes make for a spectacular, if slightly incongruous, sight in the bright Mediterranean sunshine.

It seems slightly incongruous that McNamara is now helping coach Williams, the world's biggest league star, at the Roosters.

Brilliant!' " The clothes Ms. Douglas wears as Heidi Schoichet are "slightly incongruous for her surroundings," she said.

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This biographical detail makes the rapper's appearance in a new video celebrating midcentury design icons Charles and Ray Eames only slightly less incongruous.

Among the guests are a Norwegian and a Native American in full headdress -- a sight only slightly less incongruous than the appearance of a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief in Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles".

In the video, the barefoot boy is clad in shorts and a cartoon-emblazoned T-shirt — just like any kindergartner anywhere on a hot summer's evening — lending the chaotic events an incongruous touch of childhood familiarity, right down to his slightly pigeon-toed pose.    .

Although fresh leaves and scrambled eggs would seem to be incongruous on the plate, they blended together beautifully, the greens wilting slightly under the warm egg mixture, tinted a faint green by the herbs.

Gloriously incongruous.

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