Example sentences for: absurd

How can you use “absurd” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was getting absurd for reporters to analyze developments at City Hall without referring to a romantic attachment they believed to be a key force in events.

  • Why did the equally conservative Richard Gid Powers call Heilbrunn's accusations against Yale "absurd" and existing "only in the minds of the pathologically suspicious" on the same page?

  • To Chatterbox, the notion is transparently absurd.

  • It seems to me absurd to try and read an image like The Holy Virgin Mary 1996 in purely formal terms, because it would be to apply aesthetic criteria and art-historical comparisons to a work that draws its power primarily from iconoclasm and irreverence.

  • Lanzmann's Klaus Kinskiesque outburst is the first instance of a Hitler effect on contemporary writers: the tilt toward the absurd.


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