How to Use implausible in a Sentence

implausible

adjective

• He gave an implausible excuse for showing up late for work.
• The novel has an implausible ending.
• She's been making implausible claims.
• Which is, to be fair, a not-implausible interpretation of the facts.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• Some of the accusations were implausible; others were all too real.
  — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• The best-case scenario outlined Friday seems almost implausible based on what’s transpired since then.
  — oregonlive, 13 June 2020
• The idea of creating new, skilled, well-paying manufacturing jobs in rural Brookneal would have been implausible a couple of decades ago.
  — Kevin Scott, Wired, 3 Apr. 2020
• Then, as Andres entertains implausible thoughts of becoming a better person, the novel peters out.
  — Andrew Altschul, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• Some of the online videos making implausible claims about infections and death rates are clearly being produced by political opponents to further their own agendas.
  — Robert Dingwall, Wired, 29 Jan. 2020
• And thus unfolds a nice, relaxing evening of Jim and Kimmy plotting to ruin Howard's life, one increasingly implausible plan at a time.
  — EW.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Within days, over 200 scientists signed an open letter highly critical of the paper, noting that some of the findings were simply implausible.
  — Mark R. O'Brian, The Conversation, 6 July 2020
• The White House may be telling some implausible stories these days.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• The amendment lost, but received 93 yea votes in the House and 24 in the Senate—a level of support that would have been implausible not that long ago.
  — Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
• This may sound implausible, but the world wants plastics.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• The official count proclaimed him the winner, with an implausible 80% of the vote.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
• But this is Sunday, and these events seem worlds away, implausible.
  — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
• Doesn’t everyone get frustrated with the red herrings and the implausible twists and stalling along the way?
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
• Is the concept of a non-stick-thin woman finding love that implausible?
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2020
• Alex’s father, Jeff (Kevin Bacon), has stopped trying to get it through to Alex how implausible this all sounds.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 12 June 2022
• So this is just another implausible episode of Black Mirror, which has come to life.
  — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
• The case is good news for helping judges ferret out the weakest and most implausible investor class actions.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 21 June 2021
• So the idea of the U.S. retaliating with nuclear weapons of its own seems rather implausible to me.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2022
• Some of the lawsuits give the impression of throwing everything at the wall in the hopes that something will stick, no matter how implausible.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The isolation of the disease to Wuhan that this implies is also implausible.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
• The Big Ten will attempt to play nine games in nine weeks, which sounds implausible, if not impossible, based on logic.
  — Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
• At the time, the media narrative made a punchline out of the brothers and their implausible alibi.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022
• Truth may be stranger than fiction, as the cliché holds, because the most implausible stories stand up only with evidence to back them.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
• To me, though, the implausible life—and death—of Braun’s tank of a Massachusetts whitetail was more fascinating than its antlers or body size.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 14 Dec. 2020
• Such inaction would be particularly implausible if Russia were getting major help from China, the very power that the United States had pivoted to challenge.
  — Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2023
• Even so, her willingness to consider implausible statutory readings or constitutional theories was less troubling than her readiness now to adopt them.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Sep 2024