Example sentences for: absurdly

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

  • He looks absurdly distinguished--though his magnificent white mane is starting to thin.

  • The LAT is the only one of the papers to front Microsoft President Steve Ballmer's comments yesterday that U.S. tech stocks are absurdly overpriced, which prompted large sell-offs at Nasdaq and the NYSE.

  • An absurdly inefficient system of protected markets and money-losing public corporations has been liberalized and privatized, producing a fair bit of unemployment but a huge surge in productivity.

  • Carey gives us the flawed, utterly romantic anti-hero of high Victorian fiction--absurdly tall, absurdly shy, absurdly proud, absurdly trusting, Maggs is a sighted Edward Rochester, a kinder Heathcliff.

  • You can be stuck on for anything from serious misconduct to minor infringements of the police's absurdly draconian and catch-all disciplinary codes, which make it possible for a senior officer with a grudge against a junior to stick him on for almost anything.


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