How to Use absurdity in a Sentence

absurdity

noun

• At Sara’s phone? — as if the absurdity of the moment has hit her.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Dec. 2022
• There’s something about the way Ossie writes, that’s where the magic of his satire comes in, through the absurdity.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
• In this odd game of Mouse Trap, the cast pairs agility with absurdity amid flying and rolling balls.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• In turn, Arnold embraces the absurdity of the sport and the unique nature of events like the one that unfolded in Charlotte.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 12 Jan. 2023
• The Damien Chazelle film is about the decadence and absurdity of Hollywood, old and new.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• The show pokes fun at the absurdity of the real pop culture landscapes in both the ’90s and today, but the cast and crew want to be clear: The laughs are made with love.
  — Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• The result of such a narrative is the triumph of absurdity and the defeat of art.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
• For her, a clear arc always has to confront the world’s absurdity.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• The play revels in the hall-of-mirrors absurdity involved in the performance of race.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The growing absurdity of the whole thing is all that kept it from being mind-numbing.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
• Season 3 gives us the gift of Paul Marks, who runs his business with Elon Musk-like absurdity.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• That absurdity is a large part of what makes Panera lemonade a good meme.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
• Hellbound 8h The only way a person can claim that an absurdity is true is to LIE.
  — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• In so much of the show, Earn and Al and Van fought against the absurdity of this world, but there’s an ease navigating it that Darius has.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• At the time, much of that subtext was ignored; reading the press around the film is an exercise in early-2000s absurdity.
  — Vulture, 29 Dec. 2022
• But like Get Out, which is name-checked late in the season, it’s dialed into both the absurdity and the danger of being Black in a white world.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• The League has to start investigating these absurdities On the street, this would be grand theft.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2023
• When faced with the absurdity of so many converging crises, life itself can feel like a joke.
  — Cassidy George, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2023
• The absurdity comes in when the audience learns these writers are not allowed to leave, and that an intern brings them their meals.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2023
• On social media, fans showed their grief with a touch of absurdity.
  — Vulture, 30 Dec. 2023
• But all that wealth comes with a certain degree of absurdity.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2022
• The idea may seem absurd on its face, but as Zachary Carter argued back in 2021, the real absurdity is the debt ceiling itself.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
• The plot itself consists of one absurdity after another when a group of teenagers consume cannabis for the first time.
  — Red Rodriguez, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• Was there a particular moment back then that seemed like the height of absurdity?
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• But on Thursday morning, customers at the restaurant in Hapeville got their fill of absurdity.
  — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 14 July 2023
• In practice, things have now reached a point of absurdity where many don’t believe the game is even real, or ever coming out.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• To stand against the tide of trans absurdity is to invite the sky down on one’s head, so, understandably, most people stay quiet when pushed.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
• But some remain in the show itself, roiling its mixture of absurdities and half-truths.
  — M.d. Rodrigues, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• The absurdity of this moment cut to the quick of America's nuclear project.
  — Abe Streep, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Those who remember the many lean seasons here before Bobby Orr’s arrival in the fall of ‘66, the idea then of a 65-win season would have been pure absurdity.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024