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
• To call the speech a masterpiece will strike his enemies as preposterous.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2019
• This was preposterous, and the public, as the polling has consistently shown for a long time, didn’t believe it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2024
• The plot twists are at times preposterous, especially when the film-within-a-film becomes an awards contender.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 13 June 2019
• Maybe a lot of people find this allegation preposterous.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2018
• The idea that the U.S. could ever again become the world's top oil producer once seemed preposterous.
  — David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• Here are the five most preposterous moments in The Rock’s new action vehicle.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Television and movies repeatedly offer the message that having your parents involved in the choice of your partner is preposterous and backwards.
  — Huda Al-Marashi, SELF, 1 Nov. 2018
• Many of the paintings in Dana Schutz’s extraordinary recent exhibition of new work are on the face of it preposterous, even grotesque.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• The phenomenon seems preposterous because there’s nothing about our non-quantum-scale experience to suggest such a thing is possible.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2019
• Fun, refreshing and faintly preposterous: Here’s a story to inspire audacious 4- to 9-year-olds.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• With a preposterous level of futility in the early innings, the Padres left themselves vulnerable to a comeback.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 July 2018
• His story is intermittently entertaining, but the complicated and preposterous plot, with its many twists and turns, fails to hold one’s interest.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But to set it in the preposterous [environment] of Hollywood, that feels like a fresh take — to see behind the curtain in a way.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024