How to Use plausibility in a Sentence

plausibility

noun

• Stay up to date on the best things to do, see and eat in L.A. The allure is in the unsettling plausibility of it all.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Logic and plausibility are held in abeyance to pave the way for the next juicy pop number.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• Of course, the point was not plausibility; Trump’s post was better read as a cry for help.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• But the idea that Sean Spicer has been body-shamed out of the spotlight still holds a patina of plausibility.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 20 June 2017
• The best stories here are the ones that fall on or near the line of plausibility, exposing the fault lines in our current mode.
  — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 16 July 2019
• The one thing this dud of a bombshell has going for it is plausibility.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Too many times when the Hall of Fame trainer has stretched the envelope of plausibility the way a sumo does spandex.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2021
• The movie has every right to be fiction, but the heart of its drama lies in its patina of plausibility.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
• But the jury could not see past the question of plausibility.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• And selling judges on the plausibility of a future that never occurred is the hard part.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
• Searching for the source of life on Earth, Miller and Urey discovered the plausibility of life throughout the cosmos.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2016
• Any air of plausibility soon leaks out of the plot, and the whole thing drifts into silliness, tricked out with familiar tropes.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• Tracy and Gordo are on the far end of the plausibility spectrum.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• That group is called Crossroads—a name with just the right degree of clever-hokey Christian plausibility.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Paragon missed even that window of plausibility by at least two years.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• Best not to think too long or hard about the dumb plot, the threadbare romance, the fetishization of U.S. military might or the de rigueur plausibility issues.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• The play’s scrupulous plausibility slips a notch in the ratcheting up of this conflict.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• But the power of the Museum of Banned Objects is in its plausibility.
  — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
• But what does physics say about the plausibility of flying reindeer?
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• For him truth means plausibility, and by that measure the story of Adam and Eve is no more than a miracle of storytelling.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• The Birds, Vertigo, and Psycho, Hitchcock drove off the plausibility road with four-wheel drive.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2015
• In that way, the Globes are a kind of Overton window for films and performances, pushing their winners into the realm of plausibility.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
• Overall, the results could have potential plausibility, but age does seem to take a grand toll.
  — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 11 July 2017
• But perhaps no one’s outfits stretch the limits of plausibility more than Lazkani’s.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
• Peary, for all his flaws, required a basic respect for plausibility and fact.
  — Time, 15 July 2023
• But an unlikely culprit has cast doubt on the plausibility of this scenario: cruise ships, at least four of which have been impacted by the outbreak.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2020
• This one doesn't even reach any level of plausibility for a federal judge.
  — Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
• And, as ever, the franchise is making good on her plausibility.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2021
• The plausibility of the basic-income idea is still a matter of some pretty basic debate.
  — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2018
• Experts in computer and cognitive science, and others in policy and ethics, often have their own distinct understanding of the concept (and different opinions about its implications or plausibility).
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024