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How to use cohere in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb

Cohere means to stick together physically, by adhesion. Example: “Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.”

Examples of cohere by meaning

verbTo stick together physically, by adhesion.

  • Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.
  • Nothing coheres the way you expect.2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian

verbTo be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

  • Members of the party would cohere in the message they were sending.
  • A system that degrades but coheres is a far better place to live than a system that completely collapses.2024 April 15, Charles Hugh Smith, Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive

verbTo be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

  • This division suggests that Khamenei is not playing his usual role of cohering the regime during a crisis.2022 October 2, Nicholas Carl, Kitaneh Fitzpatrick, Zachary Coles, and Frederick W. Kagan, “Iran Crisis Update, October 2”, in Iran...

More sentences with cohere

  • This coheres with the pattern of Scripture, which inscribes her story among that of others in the company of Jesus.2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21. From the entry inscribe
  • The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term.2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific,, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry statewide
  • Circulation Junkspace is often described as a space of flows, but that is a misnomer; flows depend on disciplined movement, bodies that cohere.2012, A. Krista Sykes, Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009, →ISBN. From the entry junkspace
  • In just the same way, the force of metta, lovingkindness, allows us to cohere, to come together within ourselves and with all beings.1997, Sharon Salzberg, “Mercy”, in Kathleen Hughes, Joseph A. Favazza, editors, A Reconciliation Sourcebook (The Sourcebook Series)…. From the entry lovingkindness
  • It is only because we can embrace imperatives that cohere with a force beyond being and beyond the world that we can, exceptionally, act as absolutely and "unsayably" free.2003, Peter Halward, “The one or the other: French philosophy today”, in Angelaki, volume 8, number 2, page 13. From the entry unsayably
  • What they undertake is to explain God's words and works, so as to make His utterances cohere — as if, be it said unblasphemously, He were a human authority.1962, Gerald Abrahams, The Jewish Mind, Beacon Press, page 79. From the entry unblasphemously

Meaning of cohere

  1. verb To stick together physically, by adhesion.
  2. verb To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose.

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Questions about cohere in a sentence

How do you use cohere in a sentence?
Cohere is used as a verb. For example: “Separate molecules will cohere because of electromagnetic force.”
What is a short sentence with cohere?
“Nothing coheres the way you expect.”
What does cohere mean?
Cohere means to stick together physically, by adhesion.

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