How to Use improbable in a Sentence

improbable

adjective

• The team made an improbable comeback.
• It's been an improbable, rocky journey from flyweight to middleweight to heavyweight.
  — Matthew Self, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2024
• Stanford snapped a six-game losing streak and won its first home game over an FBS team in the Taylor era in improbable fashion.
  — Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
• That fact is no less improbable than the tale that led Vail to the Beach Boys in the first place.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
• The Badgers improbable win came in the first round of the 4A playoffs.
  — Azcentral.com, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• But that is the case with Tariq Woolen, one of this year's more improbable stories.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2022
• One of the greatest and most improbable stories in all of sports.
  — Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2022
• But this improbable journey — from foes to frenemies to the best of buds — needs to be shared.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 28 May 2023
• The improbable run of Uxbridge is reaching new heights.
  — Alex Walulik, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
• The improbable success of the book led Mr. Kissinger back to Harvard as a lecturer.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the life of Road Trip Mike, no tale is too tall, no story too grand, no anecdote too improbable.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 1 June 2024
• Liam Hendricks in the ninth and crushed a three-run homer in the 11th to secure Cleveland’s improbable comeback win.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2022
• And there aren’t that many states or districts in play, so big swings in Congress are more improbable.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• The odds of a draw as the result in this fight are considered highly improbable at (+1800).
  — Tim Brown | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2022
• Line up all of those maybes—improbable as each one is—and maybe Grusch has a compelling story to tell.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 July 2023
• Chicago wrestler Joe Rau’s improbable journey leads him to the Olympics — at age 33.
  — Brian Cassella, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2024
• There’s a villain, love at first sight, a plot to frame someone for the murder, close calls, and improbable escapes.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
• Her improbable victory in the final came against an odds-on favorite in Jabeur, the world No. 6 and thus the sixth seed in the tournament.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 15 July 2023
• Cooper described the tense search for the woman and the improbable rescue — amid a murder in progress.
  — Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
• That a new novel by Céline should appear from out of the sky seems improbable.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2022
• The idea of Jews living in postwar Gaza may seem improbable, but Gaza hasn’t always been Jew-free.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
• In between, the Mustangs rallied for an improbable comeback to send the game to overtime.
  — Randy Kennedy, al, 26 Aug. 2023
• The same word might be used to describe Rodriguez’s reaction to the improbable series of twists and turns his life has taken over the past 14 years.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• In the video above, watch Harrison’s touchdown grab, along with the rest of the highlights from Oregon State’s improbable win.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2022
• Malden Catholic had seized momentum as the home crowd sensed an improbable comeback in the making.
  — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
• Playing an agent with the improbable name of Hymie Kelly, Mr. Bennett earned such poor notices that the film role was his last as well as first.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Theirs is the most improbable of love stories — but the heart works in mysterious ways.
  — Jan Crawford, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
• The Bearcats should be due for a let down after an improbable Playoff run last season.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
• Kendall pulls off an improbable success with the investors, but the pleasure from it fades quickly.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
• For the past decade, that has looked, frankly, improbable—at least at the pace corporations were going.
  — Andrew Blum, Time, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024