How to Use preposterous in a Sentence

preposterous

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  • The whole idea is preposterous!
  • And then there is the fact that the fact seems preposterous.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 10 July 2018
  • The movie is preposterous enough on its own, and the landscape does the work for him.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 July 2024
  • What’s more, the sexism in parts of the Big Book is preposterous.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
  • For the odds were (and remain) preposterous given the facts on the ground.
    — Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Some of it is sweet, some of it is sick, and some of it’s just downright preposterous.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Even for Ruth, the notion of pitching once or twice a week and then playing the field the rest of the time was preposterous.
    — Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • But the idea that this doesn't have something to do with race is preposterous.
    — Julia Zorthian, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Fear The Walking Dead has set up one of the most preposterous conflicts to-date in this show.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The first step wasn’t preposterous, and this step now isn’t perfect.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2020
  • To paraphrase Marx: first as a farce, then as a more preposterous farce.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
  • All their preposterous prayers … Save me, heal me, cure me.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Much of what happened was exactly in the script, and much was more preposterous than the script.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022
  • If the idea seems preposterous, micro-units are not for you.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018
  • That a team that finished 16 games behind the Dodgers can win three games and move on is preposterous.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The most preposterous had it that the Army was working on a secret submarine in the desert.
    — Dennis Eskow, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2020
  • But there was a time not too long ago that question would have been preposterous.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The quality of life in this future world is the most preposterous thing about it.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The, the, the idea that the first floor shouldn’t be included with Jeff, which Jeff Alvin Palm was pushing in this story is preposterous.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • Even if the idea of stashing your phone away for a while seems preposterous, some people do keep spares around just in case.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2019
  • But now the thought of moving Bassitt sounds preposterous.
    — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The new Supreme collection features five styles, each one more of-the-moment—and more preposterous—than the last.
    — Tyler Watamanuk, GQ, 15 May 2018
  • The thought was preposterous, terrible—the thought of the goose-feather pillow pressed over a face.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • And how would the film handle the novel’s just-short-of-preposterous Big Reveal?
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Not, not just a few, a bunch saying that’s preposterous.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But even within the preposterous realm of sports arguments, some just aren’t worth the time.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Okay, that might sound a little preposterous given the fact that the team has already retired 24 numbers, the most in the NBA.
    — Hunter Felt, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Love: the word is applied like glue, keeping this vast book in one preposterous piece.
    — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • Three years ago, that idea might have seemed preposterous.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2021
  • The idea that the world’s largest and most diversified economy needs a sovereign wealth fund to direct investment — on top of all the government direction of investment that already takes place through other channels — is preposterous.
    — The Editors, National Review, 13 Sep. 2024

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