How to Use preposterous in a Sentence

preposterous

adjective

• The whole idea is preposterous!
• And then there is the fact that the fact seems preposterous.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 10 July 2018
• The movie is preposterous enough on its own, and the landscape does the work for him.
  — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 10 July 2024
• What’s more, the sexism in parts of the Big Book is preposterous.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 Apr. 2022
• For the odds were (and remain) preposterous given the facts on the ground.
  — Jonathan M. Hansen, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• Some of it is sweet, some of it is sick, and some of it’s just downright preposterous.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
• Even for Ruth, the notion of pitching once or twice a week and then playing the field the rest of the time was preposterous.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• But the idea that this doesn't have something to do with race is preposterous.
  — Julia Zorthian, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
• Fear The Walking Dead has set up one of the most preposterous conflicts to-date in this show.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• The first step wasn’t preposterous, and this step now isn’t perfect.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2020
• To paraphrase Marx: first as a farce, then as a more preposterous farce.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
• All their preposterous prayers … Save me, heal me, cure me.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• Much of what happened was exactly in the script, and much was more preposterous than the script.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022
• If the idea seems preposterous, micro-units are not for you.
  — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 23 Apr. 2018
• That a team that finished 16 games behind the Dodgers can win three games and move on is preposterous.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• The most preposterous had it that the Army was working on a secret submarine in the desert.
  — Dennis Eskow, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2020
• But there was a time not too long ago that question would have been preposterous.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2018
• The quality of life in this future world is the most preposterous thing about it.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 18 Dec. 2023
• The, the, the idea that the first floor shouldn’t be included with Jeff, which Jeff Alvin Palm was pushing in this story is preposterous.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 May 2022
• Even if the idea of stashing your phone away for a while seems preposterous, some people do keep spares around just in case.
  — David Nield, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2019
• But now the thought of moving Bassitt sounds preposterous.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
• The new Supreme collection features five styles, each one more of-the-moment—and more preposterous—than the last.
  — Tyler Watamanuk, GQ, 15 May 2018
• The thought was preposterous, terrible—the thought of the goose-feather pillow pressed over a face.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• And how would the film handle the novel’s just-short-of-preposterous Big Reveal?
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Not, not just a few, a bunch saying that’s preposterous.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
• But even within the preposterous realm of sports arguments, some just aren’t worth the time.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 18 Oct. 2017
• Okay, that might sound a little preposterous given the fact that the team has already retired 24 numbers, the most in the NBA.
  — Hunter Felt, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Love: the word is applied like glue, keeping this vast book in one preposterous piece.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• Three years ago, that idea might have seemed preposterous.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2021
• Read: Nutrition science’s most preposterous result Even yogurt options that don’t look dessertlike can still be laced with sugar.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024