How to Use plausible in a Sentence

plausible

adjective

• And so, look, that is a -- a plausible bet for Democrats to make.
  — ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023
• The new study suggests the lower end of the range is more plausible.
  — National Geographic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Were the fairies in the photographs not catching the light in a plausible way?
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• But why did this all seem so plausible to so many at the time?
  — Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
• Still, the fact that the idea would even seem plausible illustrates the risks Democrats...
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2019
• The judge agreed that the student has a plausible case to go forward on that claim.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2019
• The more people get in, the more plausible any scenario starts to seem.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 17 Dec. 2018
• But to keep the promise plausible, Democrats made a choice.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
• That would have been plausible, that the Stars were a middling team in the playoff hunt.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2021
• All are more plausible than the bill that died in the Senate on Tuesday.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2021
• But for at least some people, the threat now seems much more plausible.
  — WSJ, 8 Nov. 2023
• Charges against the owner seem plausible, as well as charges against others who helped run the place or the event.
  — Thomas Peele, Orange County Register, 5 June 2017
• Many are bat-house crazy, some are more than plausible.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 July 2023
• But the fact that question is plausible enough to answer does not bode well.
  — Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• Hence, the huge fall the model found plausible, and that didn’t occur, doesn’t have to happen.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• There was no plausible reason to think the story wasn’t true.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 15 July 2022
• Even the most fantastic love scenes in the movies seem plausible standing on a Parisian bridge.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• By the end of each episode, the myths were rated busted, plausible or confirmed.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
• And, finally, what is the source and amount of new funding that makes this plausible?
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2022
• Roberson said the credit union alerted her to fraud in the past, which made the phone call in March seem even more plausible.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2024
• Such a path is no less plausible to me than the ones claimed by Herrick, Davis or Skolsky.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• All of these theories are plausible, given the wild plot lines the show's creators have cooked up in the past.
  — Glamour, 8 May 2019
• But stay with me because some clues make the actor and singer a plausible option.
  — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• For the most part, though, the film makes goodwill plausible by making evil equally so.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
• There’s also a plausible case for Rodriguez as the right kind of owner.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2020
• The second part of this seems plausible, but the first is harder to understand.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 31 May 2021
• If nothing else goes wrong, that’s the best plausible outcome, right?
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2018
• But his struggles are the reason that was even plausible.
  — Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• The idea that the Blue Jays would sign the Japanese star seemed plausible when a private jet was headed to Toronto.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
• Shostakovich’s son, Maxim, passed along a more plausible framing of the coda.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024