Example sentences for: improbable

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

  • An FAA civil aviation security official believed the plan was improbable because Libyan planes were required to operate within airspace limitations and the Libyans did not possess aircraft with the necessary range to make good on the threat.

  • 4 million base pairs), finding 100% of mutations is improbable using these fragments because we cannot examine all the sequences and situations that might affect expression.

  • We regret having to use this procrustean approach, but because of the difficulty of verifying genotypes and because numerous loci introduce improbable double-recombinant haplotypes, we have used exclusive criteria to ensure high-quality maps.

  • a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)

  • "As improbable yet as irresistible as any beach book you may be hoarding" ( USA Today ). Encomiums for the show compare it to Law & Order and NYPD Blue , which "have made the '90s a golden era of TV crime dramas" (Howard Rosenberg, the Los Angeles Times ).


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