COHERE in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for COHERE, such as:

1. The regiment left a coherent trail of bodies.
2. The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.
3. Solids have a greater tendency to cohere than liquids.
4. An overall theme will help to give your essay coherence.
5. They have struggled to create coherence within the group.

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 Meanings and Examples of COHERE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cohere
 v.  stick or hold together in a mass that resists separation
Classic Sentence:
1  The woman's story hung coherently together, and all my questions were unable to shake it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
2  He actually sat crying in an armchair, and I could hardly get him to speak coherently.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
3  Barclay therefore, in another place, more coherently to himself, denies it to be lawful to resist a king in any case.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Only senseless things, lacking coherence, presented themselves one after another to Prince Andrew's mind.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
5  "Well," he went on with an evident effort at self-control and coherence.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVIII
6  Still greater coherence and inevitability is seen in the life of Alexander I, the man who stood at the head of the countermovement from east to west.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
7  The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  It was hard to see the small arms going around his neck and hear the choking voice relate what had frightened her, when she, Scarlett, had gotten nothing coherent out of her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
9  The regiment left a coherent trail of bodies.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
10  Having by this time recovered a little breath, the worthy book-stall keeper proceeded to relate, in a more coherent manner the exact circumstances of the robbery.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
12  Although the only coherent part of the latter piece of literature were the opening lines.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV
Example Sentence:
1  Solids have a greater tendency to cohere than liquids.
2  The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.
3  They have struggled to create coherence within the group.
4  She lost consciousness and when she came round she still lacked coherence and focus.
5  An overall theme will help to give your essay coherence.
6  Its coherence is evident; it is too lovely and lucid to be frustrating or dull.
7  He appeared hardly capable of conducting a coherent conversation.
8  The party's policies were based on prejudice rather than on any coherent ideology.
9  He has failed to work out a coherent strategy for modernising the service.
10  A coherent strategy for getting more people back to work needs to be developed.
11  If the EU is to form any kind of coherent common foreign policy, it needs France and Britain singing from the same song sheet.
12  Instead, Mr Blomkamp's ramshackle film doesn't quite focus on anything, but blunders around from one gory shoot-out to the next without stopping to say anything coherent about robotics, law enforcement, South Africa or anything else.