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How to use coincidence in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Coincidence means the property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place. Example: “That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.”

Examples of coincidence by meaning

nounThe appearance of a meaningful connection between events when there is none.

  • That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.
  • It is sheer coincidence that the cartoon resembles the local politician.
  • This is a matter of coincidence rather than historical continuity; there is, however, a link between Stirner and modern existentialism through Nietzsche, who had read Stirner's work though he nowhere expressly refers to it.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon...

More sentences with coincidence

  • England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence.2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 50. From the entry funicular
  • It is no coincidence that the city’s tycoonocracy is being blamed for both betrayals.2014, The Times, “Home truths that are driving the Hong Kong protest”, Oct 7, 2014. From the entry tycoonocracy
  • By a strange coincidence, Esmond Mills made a baby blanket that had Bunny's image printed on it.2012, Frank Heppner, Railroads of Rhode Island: Shaping the Ocean State's Railways, History Press. From the entry elmo
  • It’s no coincidence that we speak of how much we can eat in one sitting.2008, Pavel G. Somov, Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time, Oakland, CA: New Harbinger…. From the entry oversit
  • A closer look at the foreign-occupied Indian state of Jammu- Kashmir reveals some unsettling coincidences.2007, H. John Poole, Dragon Days: Time for "Unconventional" Tactics, Illustrated, Posterity Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129. From the entry Trans-Karakoram Tract
  • Feluda stared, as though he had seen a ghost, and exclaimed, 'My word, what a coincidence!1997, Satyajit Ray, Gopa Majumdar, The royal Bengal mystery and other Feluda stories, Puffin, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry telepathetic
  • By coincidence, I am now travelling aboard another Otranto, a spaceship of Italish manufacture.1995, Brian Wilson Aldiss, The secret of this book: 20-odd stories. From the entry Italish
  • But the coincidence of baneful events is a happy coincidence too.1990, Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, Cool Memories, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso Books, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry happy
  • Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.1964, Goldfinger, spoken by James Bond (Sean Connery). From the entry happenstance
  • It is no coincidence that the Gospel of John portray's Jesus in terms analogous to the Simonians' depiction of Simon.2016, April D. DeConick, The Gnostic New Age. From the entry Simonian
  • This is not the weirdest of all possible coincidences; beetling and bug-hunting were more mainstream activities in Victorian times.2014, Simon Barnes, Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom, London: Short Books, →ISBN, page 449. From the entry beetlemania
  • This is not true, of course, and the sequence of nines is a mere coincidence—thus, the joke of the Feynman Point.2012, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney, The Handy Math Answer Book, 2nd edition, Visible Ink Press, page 41. From the entry Feynman point
  • This highlights the awkwardly linked histories of transfolk and the gay and lesbian community due to historical and geographical coincidences.2010, Kath Browne, Catherine J. Nash, Queer Methods and Methodologies, →OCLC, page 140. From the entry transfolk
  • His wife, happy coincidence, had prepared my favourite sweet, rabadi.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 3. From the entry rabadi
  • When happy events coincide, that is a happy coincidence.1990, Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, Cool Memories, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso Books, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry happy
  • The Greco-Latin coincidences are presumably due to the independent preservation of elements of the most ancient IE. vocabulary.1988, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Latin Language, page 21. From the entry Greco-Latin
  • Harry Storm, there is no such thing as a coincidence!1962, Lionel Fanthorpe and Patricia Fanthorpe writing as John E. Muller, The Return of Zeus, Gateway, published 2014. From the entry astrologeress
  • As the telescope is swung round, the slit image for each wavelength is brought into coincidence with the cross-wires.1957, Richard Samuel Longhurst, Geometrical and Physical Optics, page 78. From the entry cross-wires
  • A coincidence is the intersection of two lines, neither of which need possess in itself the least significance.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry conformable
  • Perhaps we were dealing with exceptions and coincidences.1927, Joseph Brennemann, “Simple congenital anorectal stricture with megacolon in early infancy: report of six cases”, in Transactions of…. From the entry proctoscope
  • True reality is subetheric and not perceptible through our etheric senses, though we get hints of synchronicities (apparent coincidences mediated by nonlocal communication).2016, Dennis J. Parizek, Everyverse RPG Paranormality. From the entry subetheric
  • The apparent dominant inheritance pattern (pseudodominant) was the result of the unusual coincidence of both mother and daughter being compound heterozygotes for senataxin mutations.2015 April 30, Laurence Newrick, Malcolm Taylor, Marios Hadjivassiliou, “Pseudodominant AOA2”, in Cerebellum & Ataxias, volume 2, →DOI. From the entry senataxin
  • Here the believer is encouraged to take some coincidence, like winning the lottery or recovering from sickness, as evidence of a higher power at work.2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry God wink
  • Quite the coincidence, don't you think?2006 February 6, Sherman Alexie, “When the story stolen is your own”, in Time. From the entry quite
  • However, the appearance of homozygous forms without consanguinity and coincidence of two types of porphyria in the same patient, dual porphyrias, is possible.2003, M. Lecha, C. Herrero, D. Ozalla, “Porphyrias”, in Andreas D. Katsambas, Torello M. Lotti, editors, European Handbook of…. From the entry porphyria
  • By examining the coincidence detection rates between the teleported and unteleported pairs after polarization filtering it can be determined if non-local correlations are still present.2000, Vitaliĭ Vladimirovich Samart︠s︡ev, IRQO'99: Quantum Optics: 27-29 October 1999, Kazan, Russia. From the entry unteleported
  • It is only a coincidence that those same restrictions drive the property values up so high that only the well-heeled can afford to live there.1996 September 3, Rich Johnson, “Democrats! Relax!”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet), retrieved 11 Aug 2022. From the entry Boulderite
  • Unlike jokes and coincidences, the stereotype is an inveterate boundary crosser; it returns, succubuslike, at times of crisis or shifts of perspective, in literary history.1995, Marshall Brown, The uses of literary history, page 184. From the entry succubuslike
  • Could it be mere coincidence, for instance, that Billie Holiday's line of lovermen exhibited a sadistic streak both in her lyrics and in her life?1995, Will Friedwald, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, →ISBN, page 446. From the entry loverman
  • Is it just an odd coincidence that the first event of the diarylike text is also the earliest element of the prosecutor's case?1990, Roy Jay Nelson, Causality and narrative in French fiction from Zola to Robbe-Grillet. From the entry diarylike
  • They do not depend on external circumstances, implausible natural events, startling coincidences, and the other di ex machinis that stalk mechanically through much romantic fiction.1969: Harold H. Kolb, The Illusion of Life: American Realism as a Literary Form, page 107 (University Press of Virginia). From the entry di ex machinis
  • The rod-shaped E. coli phages share a common host range with the RNA-containing E. coli phages, a coincidence which probably unites unrelated viruses.1965, “Small Bacteriophages”, in Advances in Virus Research, volumes 1-11, pages 343–4. From the entry rod-shaped
  • Times Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "I know it looks bad, but I'll swear on a stack of Bibles it's a sheer coincidence."1962 July 13, “Sheer Coincidence”, in Time, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2013. From the entry swear on a stack of Bibles
  • It is interesting to note that sulphates head one of Freundlich’s lyotropic series; but I fear that this is merely a coincidence.1910, The British Journal of Photography,, volume 57, page 631. From the entry lyotropic
  • By an extraordinary coincidence he had ready for the press a grammar and complete dictionary of a language of his own, named Adjuvanto.1907, M.A. OXON., W. J. CLARK, PH.D. LEIPZIG, International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar. From the entry Adjuvanto
  • It is unclear if the flock of requests had created a system failure, or Foodpanda had cut access on purpose, or the timing was merely a coincidence.2021 July 20, Masayuki Yuda, “Foodpanda faces backlash after calling Thai protest 'terrorism'”, in Nikkei Asia, Nikkei Inc, retrieved 20…. From the entry glitch
  • It’s not a coincidence that the following saying offers insight into the CIOs’ minds: ‘Never change a running system.’ However, just keeping the lights on seems to prevent innovation.2021, Andreas Graesser, Escape the Change Dilemma: Transformation to a Smart Data-Driven World, →ISBN. From the entry never change a running system

Meaning of coincidence

  1. noun The property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.
  2. noun The appearance of a meaningful connection between events when there is none.
  3. noun A coincidence point.

Full definition of coincidence

Questions about coincidence in a sentence

How do you use coincidence in a sentence?
Coincidence is used as a noun. For example: “That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.”
What is a short sentence with coincidence?
“Quite the coincidence, don't you think?”
What does coincidence mean?
Coincidence means the property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.

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