How to Use laughable in a Sentence

laughable

adjective

• His attempt at skiing was laughable.
• Quite the opposite, but the way in which the Big Ten got to this point is laughable.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2020
• Asking me to pull off a shot from the three-point line is laughable.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
• The idea that racism’s roots and branches are something of the past is laughable.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2019
• The thought of making any long-term plans is laughable.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• What isn’t silly, what isn’t laughable is the of the state Lions.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2020
• But the 7-on-7 periods with Nabers on the field are a bit laughable.
  — Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
• The fact the mainstream media thinks that’s news is laughable.
  — Annie Linskey, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• And, in perhaps the most laughable bit of news that has come out, Yahoo!
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• On its face, Paul Davidson writes, the idea may sound laughable.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• One of the most laughable narratives has to do with the timeline of the attack.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN, 14 Jan. 2021
• Some observers at the meeting even found the idea laughable.
  — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• Some of it might have been laughable to Meredith had the impact not been so painful.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
• This scenario is not so laughable in the wake of the pandemic.
  — Brittany Trang, STAT, 22 Nov. 2022
• The very notion of the sport is laughable in these instances, but not to Olympian Adam Rippon.
  — Jay Jurden, Teen Vogue, 12 Feb. 2018
• The face-swap technology used in the videos was so crude as to be laughable.
  — Wired, 1 Sep. 2021
• How large are the costs that the state’s residents ought to bear to achieve such laughable outcomes?
  — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 1 Mar. 2021
• The most laughable, in retrospect, is that this was a problem for the future rather than the present.
  — John D. Sutter, CNN, 3 Nov. 2022
• His dark fate in the film is handled in a way that’s meant to be laughable — and is, but not in the way that’s intended.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• The habit of trying to punch down on a place, to define it by its problems, is laughable.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• Three or four years ago, such a concept seemed laughable.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 12 June 2021
• The jury is still out on Fred, but to suggest Sanchez would improve the squad is laughable.
  — SI.com, 8 July 2019
• Lord God please inspire the SNL writers to create a skit that takes the laughable soul of the song to new levels.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 8 Dec. 2022
• Not long ago, the notion of the Suns being the Warriors’ rivals would have been laughable.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2021
• The All-Star Games in the other pro sports also have become laughable.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 July 2021
• Because the Irish settlements were poor, the people slight and weak, the weapons laughable.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Twenty years ago, as Fluker said, the idea would have been laughable.
  — Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
• The claim that most journalists are elites is laughable.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
• Our initial two-year plan is laughable with the wisdom of hindsight.
  — Steven Rhines, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• Their emotional triggers change, and a treatise that once would have induced them to attack their neighbors will, a month or a year later, seem laughable.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024