| 1. | Here was congenial ground for all. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | As the honeymoon fades, each reverts to the kind of recreation congenial to his type. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 3. | He prefers staying at the same job with congenial associates to finding another even if it paid more. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 4. | The strong tide, so swift, so deep, and certain, was like a congenial friend, in the morning stillness. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | Invite him when there are to be a few congenial souls, and if he wanders into the library leave him alone. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 6. | From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | John practiced for some time as a barrister, but had finally settled down to the more congenial life of a country squire. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 8. | The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 9. | Stepan Arkadyevitch would have been the companion most congenial to him, but he was going out, he said, to a _soire_, in reality to the ballet. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |