How to Use risible in a Sentence

risible

adjective

• The suggestion was downright risible.
• The idea that the arts will wither away if the NEA goes away is risible.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2017
• The Dutch police impounded the white rides on the risible grounds that they were unlocked (which, of course, was the point).
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Also risible to the crown prince was the notion that his citizens fear speaking out against him.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• On the ground, however, this was risible—there were no Europeans to be found.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• The idea of spending that much on a device designed to go no farther than my spare bedroom might have seemed risible a few years ago.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2020
• Mei draws her crush as a merman—a fantasy more risible than racy.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2022
• Some are chic, many are risible; all of it has an exuberant view of the future that marks it as decidedly from the past.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
• The demand that China cut its trade surplus by $100bn is, in a technical sense, risible.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• The idea that Fox News is the only news organization that takes advantage of the First Amendment is risible.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• These were completely risible statements such as the one claiming that Ukraine is a fascist, anti-semitic State...
  — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2022
• This is because Yates’ charge of potential blackmail appears on the surface to be risible.
  — Eli Lake, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
• Just one month after his risible Death Wish remake pancaked, we've been handed the trailer for his new... kid's horror movie starring Jack Black?
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 27 Mar. 2018
• But Macron’s pretension to be the embodiment of the popular will is risible.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• Kelly had moments of luck in Fox News when up against interview subjects who were presented to the audience as risible in a sort of kayfabe way.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 15 May 2017
• Only via a risible script contrivance does Paul's crime spree eventually point him toward those killers.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• This risible half-measure drew its share of criticism on social media.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• The justices unanimously found no merit in the risible lawsuit that Texas petitioned to file against four battleground states won by Biden.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
• More startling, and risible, was Cox’s response this week to his federal indictment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• And that’s what makes the new document almost as risible as the old fulminating style of the National Civic Art Society partisans a decade ago.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• This moment has the wrong-right note—faintly risible, obscurely resonant—that Wordsworth brought to poetry.
  — Matthew Bevis, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
• Still, none of it really adds up to much, and the sensual flourishes -- like sneaking off together during a masked ball -- can't obscure the laughs that the most risible dialogue elicits.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 29 June 2017
• That contention was dismissed as risible by NBC insiders.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 14 May 2018
• Two years ago, the notion that America's future, then a glowing path of endless prosperity, had anything in common with Japan's was risible.
  — Chris Anderson, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2001
• All of it was a revealing, risible snapshot in how to bollix a sensitive and controversial case and how not to set up a kid to refurbish his crippled public image.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• And that led to a series of right-wing rabblerousers echoing and amplifying the risible accusation.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 6 Apr. 2022
• Maybe asking someone to describe the current online dispensation to a medieval farmer isn’t so risible after all.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• His legions of critics, however, have found that excuse risible.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 12 July 2022
• Yet Trump’s latest bit of performative amnesia is perhaps his most risible.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
• Her contemporaries found the performance at once irresistible and risible.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024