How to Use implausible in a Sentence

implausible

adjective
  • He gave an implausible excuse for showing up late for work.
  • The novel has an implausible ending.
  • She's been making implausible claims.
  • The mud built up from days of rain made that implausible.
    Stephen Whyno, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2018
  • But right now, both the fact and the details of it feel unearned and implausible.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The White House may be telling some implausible stories these days.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The amendment lost, but received 93 yea votes in the House and 24 in the Senate—a level of support that would have been implausible not that long ago.
    Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
  • This may sound implausible, but the world wants plastics.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • The official count proclaimed him the winner, with an implausible 80% of the vote.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Like the tsunami stones of the past, the plaque carried a message for the future, a warning to believe in changes that might at first seem implausible.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But this is Sunday, and these events seem worlds away, implausible.
    Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Kurt Cobain spun out, a white Bronco cut loose, and a sitcom about six friends with an implausible New York apartment hit the air.
    Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2018
  • Doesn’t everyone get frustrated with the red herrings and the implausible twists and stalling along the way?
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • Yet there are few ways a hard Brexit could happen, and all seem implausible.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Is the concept of a non-stick-thin woman finding love that implausible?
    Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Alex’s father, Jeff (Kevin Bacon), has stopped trying to get it through to Alex how implausible this all sounds.
    Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • But people are willing to believe the implausible, or at least lend credence to it.
    Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
  • So this is just another implausible episode of Black Mirror, which has come to life.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • Yes, the plot is contrived, and implausible, and full of masks and identity thefts, but the film aggressively owns its premise.
    refinery29.com, 12 July 2018
  • Though implausible, a run has a certain sort of warped logic suited an era in which the man who once ran the Miss Universe empire sits in the Oval Office.
    Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 12 July 2017
  • The case is good news for helping judges ferret out the weakest and most implausible investor class actions.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 21 June 2021
  • Which is, to be fair, a not-implausible interpretation of the facts.
    Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • So the idea of the U.S. retaliating with nuclear weapons of its own seems rather implausible to me.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the lawsuits give the impression of throwing everything at the wall in the hopes that something will stick, no matter how implausible.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The isolation of the disease to Wuhan that this implies is also implausible.
    George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Analysts from both parties say such a threat is implausible because the GOP bill wouldn't give states enough money to do that.
    Alan Fram, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The plaintiffs say that based on the bullet path, Howell was crouched further down in a position that makes the defense's case implausible.
    Matt McCall, Lake County News-Sun, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The fiscal hit is just one reason many economists find the plan implausible.
    Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
  • Though the oracle also claims to boast connections to Pythagoras and Alexander the Great, Beard deems this implausible.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But a one-state solution also looks implausible right now.
    Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024

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