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How to use incongruously in a sentence

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The incongruously named Bermuda grass and Kentucky bluegrass, for example, became so common they're considered native grasses by many.
A forlorn pair of chromed handle bars stuck incongruously out from under the massive front roller.
After retiring from athletics, Moses flirted, incongruously, with bobsledding.
Dinner is a sumptuous affair and, rather incongruously for a hotel which doesn't feel like a hotel, there is round-the-clock room service.
Only now they were incongruously dressed in sheepskin jackets and short skirts.
Hotels, a golf course, casinos and even a reconstructed medieval French cloister are incongruously scattered on its 277 hectares.
Barbados's Codrington College, founded in 1830, looks like an old Oxford college set incongruously amidst stately cabbage palms.
He also drew upon the work of writer Gertrude Stein and, incongruously, comedian Jack Benny, to whom he attributes his sense of timing.
He also fancies himself as a bit of a Rambo type, with murky rumours of his military exploits incongruously floating around the mild mannered madman.
Such places are plonked, incongruously, in the middle of India, connected only tenuously with the surrounding confusion and poverty.
To the somewhat incongruously glum soundtrack of the National, who are at 64 with Graceless.
This magnificent building lauded as a perfect example of Art Deco, though it strikes one as incongruously European, counter balances the architecture of the Fort.
It is conspicuously silly in places, with a chorus of Belfast millies incongruously inserted into the midst of the classical melodramatic and stylised family angst.
A motorcycle and sidecar stood somewhat incongruously outside a yurt, a large domed tent constructed of sections of felt stitched over a framework of laths.
All of which makes Julie Chen an incongruously wonderful, androidesque host for the show.
And the incongruously bright, cheerful Haitian sky surely is a winning backdrop.
A two-year rankings calculation would also sit incongruously with the season, which stretches over 12 months, and even puzzle or annoy spectators.
The museum has some Basque art and occasionally runs cultural workshops, but it's an international art museum, rather incongruously plonked down in northern Spain.
Blueberry and coconut slice My grandfather used to cook three things – Worcestershire sauce, prunes in port and, incongruously, a jammy coconut slice.
In the case of many other First Nations, this asserted administrative control continues incongruously side by side with Canada's acknowledgement of the constitutionally protected inherent right to self-government.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She looked up with an expression that struck him as incongruously triumphant.
Talleyrand claims, not incongruously, that he acted in Napoleons true interest.
For an instant, in mid-air, Joe was incongruously aware of all the noises in the Shed.
Then incongruously enough he smiled as he thought of the boy's breaking voice.
She was at once and incongruously not sleepy and thoughtless.
A frown incongruously distorted his round, floridly curved face.
Barnes was incongruously named when he was given the name of Harry.
Beside these, incongruously, was a large number of music-hall artistes.
His cheap workshirt, incongruously brilliant with the gold of the medals that flashed in the firelight, was open in front, showing the smooth skin and splendid swell of chest.
Newman watched him, and, without yielding an inch on the main issue, felt an incongruously good-natured impulse to help him to retreat in good order.
Certainly he had gazed at times very fixedly before him with the Landfall's vigilant look, this sea-captain seated incongruously in a deep-backed chair.
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