How to Use absurdity in a Sentence

absurdity

noun

• At Sara’s phone? — as if the absurdity of the moment has hit her.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Dec. 2022
• There’s something about the way Ossie writes, that’s where the magic of his satire comes in, through the absurdity.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
• Did any of us need more Tiger King absurdity in our lives?
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 28 Oct. 2021
• The hosts here are Nick and Vanessa Lachey, the episodes are 12 in number, and the absurdity is, of course, very much in abundance.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 14 Oct. 2022
• Schrödinger aimed to illustrate the absurdity of that idea: A cat cannot be both dead and alive at once.
  — Kristin Wong, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2022
• In this odd game of Mouse Trap, the cast pairs agility with absurdity amid flying and rolling balls.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• In turn, Arnold embraces the absurdity of the sport and the unique nature of events like the one that unfolded in Charlotte.
  — Josh Criswell, Chron, 12 Jan. 2023
• At first, the real-world results clash with the absurdity in the Horizon World rooms.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2024
• The Damien Chazelle film is about the decadence and absurdity of Hollywood, old and new.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
• There is no fear, no tears; there is a feeling of absurdity from the actions of the human race!
  — Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
• The show pokes fun at the absurdity of the real pop culture landscapes in both the ’90s and today, but the cast and crew want to be clear: The laughs are made with love.
  — Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
• The result of such a narrative is the triumph of absurdity and the defeat of art.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
• For Chelsea’s fans, the sale draws an end to a season that at times blurred into absurdity.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• For her, a clear arc always has to confront the world’s absurdity.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Even more so than the original game, this version takes care to err on the side of absurdity and heart over anger and spite.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2022
• News of the wrist fracture added to the sense of absurdity surrounding the pitcher’s health.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• The play revels in the hall-of-mirrors absurdity involved in the performance of race.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• The growing absurdity of the whole thing is all that kept it from being mind-numbing.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2023
• Season 3 gives us the gift of Paul Marks, who runs his business with Elon Musk-like absurdity.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• There is an infectious absurdity to the book and its hero.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2022
• The risks Bender takes with absurdity pay off in rich and tender prose.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 15 Nov. 2021
• That absurdity is a large part of what makes Panera lemonade a good meme.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
• But aside from this scene and a nice moment between Daryl and Isabelle, the rest of the episode was just littered with absurdities.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Hellbound 8h The only way a person can claim that an absurdity is true is to LIE.
  — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• In so much of the show, Earn and Al and Van fought against the absurdity of this world, but there’s an ease navigating it that Darius has.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
• On the other hand, in Thomas Nagel’s view, there’s nothing truly wrong with a sense of life’s absurdity.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2024
• An extra handmade touch helped to complement the sweet absurdity of the film as a whole.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 June 2022
• At the time, much of that subtext was ignored; reading the press around the film is an exercise in early-2000s absurdity.
  — Vulture, 29 Dec. 2022
• But like Get Out, which is name-checked late in the season, it’s dialed into both the absurdity and the danger of being Black in a white world.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• An absurdity, really—his third time trying to cross the border and his third time nearly dying to achieve it.
  — Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025