Example Sentences

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The music coheres into one loud, unbroken suite, and yet each track possesses its own character and dynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Especially when Mr. Taborn’s chords spill into watery tremolos, all this coheres.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

And at times like these, the federation coheres.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2024

But “Misty” excels as an act of self-examination more than it coheres as a piece of narrative theater.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

The discussion of each theme coheres not just because it is localized in a string of consecutive paragraphs but because it refers to the theme using a set of transparently related terms.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker