How to Use logical in a Sentence

logical

adjective
  • He seems to be a logical choice for the job.
  • Since she helped us before, it's logical to assume that she'll help us again.
  • She wasn't able to give me a logical explanation for her behavior.
  • And his jump was just a logical ascension of the chase.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • This seems like the most logical choice for Haller, given the failures of the past two hires.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2022
  • So the logical question is, then, why the hell is the border wide open?
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 31 July 2022
  • Steve Gilbert is a logical man, good with numbers, even ones that might not make sense to the rest of us.
    The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The logical question is what’s the Cowboys’ plan to end this drought?
    Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Finding a fair and logical means of doing it should have been the goal.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 10 May 2022
  • Indeed, the Dodgers and Cubs were the two most logical choices.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • That seems to make sense—and wrong ideas often do make some sort of logical sense.
    Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Hen would be the next logical person, but she's got so much on her plate.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The Allen Institute seems like a logical home for a big A.I. project.
    Steve Lohr, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • With the show ending, this feels like his logical next step.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • It’s the next logical step in a shift that’s been happening for years.
    Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Locals knew the area as the Calumet Region, so the Calumet Skyway seemed a logical choice.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Boston and New York rarely engage in trades, but the deal is a logical one for both sides.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • If Zuckerberg were to move on, Cox is seen by many as the most logical choice to succeed him.
    Quartz, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Of course, clients couldn’t duplicate the look at home, and a product line was the next logical step.
    Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Jan. 2023
  • And go from there, which is very logical in film language.
    Wilson Chapman, Variety, 16 July 2022
  • Lobster would have been the most logical dish to order.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • My logical next step was to send out inquiry emails to event planners at these venues to ask about the cost.
    Jane Morice | Jmorice@cleveland.com, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Some new ideas emerge as the logical outgrowth of things that are already known.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • The main logical difficulty is that so few of them believe in any of the same things.
    M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 25 Dec. 2023
  • While Freeze isn’t tracking a depth chart throughout the spring, the Day 1 order was a logical one.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • For Wolff, brands like Tilbury are a logical way to both give women a chance and hit her numbers.
    Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 10 June 2024
  • First and foremost, does the time travel make logical sense?
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • The only logical next step was to film the scene where the characters sat outside and ate pie.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • The logical path is to return to proper dialogue and lift sanctions.
    Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • That can make the AI energy gamble seem less like a logical bet and more like a cynical stumble into an oncoming fire.
    Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2025

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