How to Use coincidentally in a Sentence

coincidentally

adverb
  • Not coincidentally, all three have struggled both in the field and at the plate.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • My brother, coincidentally, was a cook in New Orleans at the time.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2021
  • Not coincidentally, there’s a big racial difference, too.
    Dallas News, 6 June 2021
  • The bright blue sign stands outside the courthouse, where two of the lynchings took place and where, coincidentally, Christopher works as a case manager.
    Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2021
  • Roux, coincidentally, is the sauce-thickener that is the basis for all Cajun cooking.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 29 May 2021
  • The bright-blue sign stands outside the courthouse, where two of the lynchings took place and where, coincidentally, Christopher works as a case manager.
    Washington Post, 9 June 2021
  • Many of today’s music and meme subcultures, perhaps not coincidentally, love to reclaim bits of entertainment that were once mocked as tacky.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 June 2021
  • Simmons says the groups coincidentally met a Manhattan jewelry store.
    Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Not coincidentally, the team had the fewest wins (six) in the WNBA.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Not coincidentally, the Rams have won four games in a row and clinched a playoff spot.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The two even coincidentally wore game day looks with similar, sweet nods to their men out on the field.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Not coincidentally, the U.S. also has one of the highest child-poverty rates in the group.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
  • And not coincidentally, the episode ends with the image of Kendall drowning in a swimming pool.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The storm coincidentally fell on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the rare derecho that spawned a tornado in Rogers Park.
    Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Cheryl was heading to the seventh floor of the hotel, and, coincidentally, so were Preet and his party.
    Francesca Street, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps not coincidentally, the storms came on the evening of the year’s hottest day, when the mercury in Washington climbed to 97 degrees.
    Washington Post, 27 July 2021
  • It’s also the most points the Bengals have allowed since last year’s loss to the Jets, which coincidentally was on Halloween as well.
    cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Alaska is first mentioned in the 1948 edition of the Green Book, not coincidentally the same year that the Alcan Highway opened to the public.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2022
  • And one night, every woman in the restaurant coincidentally needed a drink at the same time George Clooney pulled up a barstool.
    Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The bond deepened when Alex chose Wake Forest to play his college golf and coincidentally, Annabelle picked the school as well.
    Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
  • Not coincidentally, maybe, these are the two tracks that come off as quasi-funky, even danceable, due to White leaving a lot of room for bass lines around the samples.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The entire ad is about the new angle, i.e., a triangle, which coincidentally is the same shape of a Doritos chip.
    Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps not coincidentally the art is the same robin’s egg blue as the jeweler’s bags.
    New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The Bucks, coincidentally, will be between home games on April 1 and April 3.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The architect built the home for one of his two daughters, who coincidentally lived right next door.
    Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 5 July 2021
  • Halloween fell on a Sunday for the first time since 2010 – coincidentally, perhaps, the last time the Packers won the Super Bowl.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Xander Schauffele was the only one to play the North, and perhaps not coincidentally, the only one to break par (68).
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Both of those teams, coincidentally, had similar experiences with the Fall Classic in The Town — agony in the 70s, joy in the 90s.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Two, coincidentally, is also the number of wins that the Utah Jazz have in their last eleven games heading into this month.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Their next role is in a film coincidentally titled New Me.
    Lawrence Yee, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024

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