A stair of flagging, turning sharply round a stone pillar, led incongruously from the light French furnishings to the chamber where Lavinia was to sleep.
The road mounted abruptly, turned under a frowning wall incongruously topped with delicately painted urns, and doubled across the massive iron-bound door that closed the arched entrance.
This is one of the many striking instances in which the past and the present are incongruously united in Rome.
A sense of humour rose incongruously to check loss of self-restraint.
The talk between the three of them remained incongruously upon the surface always.
Incongruously enough the unbidden lines that continued to pass maddeningly through my mind, in time with the steady rise and fall of the piston, were those of a G.
Then suddenly he saw her lashes sweep up to unveil eyes at once mirthful and admonitory; her hungry mouth murmured incongruously an edged warning.
As he sat gnawed by pain, with surgical instruments on his table, and sombre thoughts of suicide in his head, the ray of a little episode of romance shone in incongruously upon the scene.
Aunt Nancy sat down, incongruously disreputable in appearance, her pink bow having slipped down over her right ear during the harangue.
But it was the eyes that mastered him, for in their yearning, mating so incongruously with the savage grace--in the eyes shone ever tears.
Incongruously he remembered the flowers that soon would know the cuckoo's call; the soft mysterious stars shone down; the woods lay silent underneath the sky.
The sallow, foreign face was yellow white, the plump hands were gripped, as if in some past convulsive agony, above her head, and this same muscular rigidity seemed to underlie incongruously every formless line of the flabby body.
The incongruously matter-of-fact voice of the professor asked: "Are the hands all here?
He was a tall thin man, no longer young, and dressed in the extreme of fashion save for a large rabbit's foot that dangled incongruously from his watch chain.
She turned on the light and reached under her tear-stained pillow--an incongruously gay figure in her striped pyjamas--and produced an envelope from which she drew a worn case of black morocco leather.
Jock and Mhor had a room with two beds, rather incongruously called "Anthony and Cleopatra.
She was at once and incongruously not sleepy and thoughtless.
Simple, and even cheap, her garments still owned a certain distinction which she would without hesitation have termed "stylish": a quality of smartness which somehow contrived notincongruously to associate with inferior materials.
I see that you areincongruously situated, but don't you think that you may be wrong yourself?
The affairs of life and death mix themselves incongruously enough, in this confused world.
The afternoons and the aspects here are mostincongruously lovely--and so must be yours.
It already looks less incongruously white amid its murky surrounding wharves; less like a frosted wedding-cake, less aggressively Greek near the grey Gothic pile of neighbouring Westminster.
The word seemed so incongruously ridiculous, after what she had felt, that she burst into exaggerating laughter.
Valerie, dressed in thin black, was sitting on the veranda, and beside her Miss Bocock, still in traveling dress, looked incongruously ungraceful.
It rang and clanged--an outraged and intimidating ding-dong of virtuous platitudes which she had incongruously rigged up in the sensual warmth of her nature.
The stillness--he had never known silence so heavy, so full of strange, premonitory pulsings; a silence that seemed so incongruously full of clamouring whispers in his ears!
It outraged his incongruously persistent demand for fair play, just as the sight of the jauntily clad gunners shooting down pigeons on that tranquil and Edenic little grass-plot at the foot of the Promontory had done.
But on one side of the narrow door she could make out an incongruously ornate and showy cigarstore; on the other, an equally unlooked-for woman's hair-dressing and manicuring parlor.
He felt incongruously grateful for the lash that had awakened him to even illicit activity; life, under the passion for accomplishment, under the zest for risk and responsibility, seemed to take on its older and deeper meaning once more.
Their struggles, as he assisted her up through the narrow opening, were ungainly and ludicrous; yet, incongruously enough, there came to him a fleeting sense of joy in even that accidental and impersonal contact of her hand with his.
Incongruously it flashed through her mind, as wayward thoughts and ideas would at such moments, how relieved primitive man amid his primitive night must have been at the blessed gift of the first fire.
These carven figures, wet and glistening in the light of the street-lamps, stood out incongruously gloomy and ghostly, like the high relief on a sarcophagus.
Honora paused in the spring twilight to contemplate the house, which stood out incongruously from its sombre, brownstone brothers and sisters with noisy basement kitchens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incongruously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broadly; humorously; unfortunately
