Example sentences for: improbable

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

  • "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 ).

  • Every relative in my grandparents' generation seems to have graduated from high school at some improbable age like 14 or 12.

  • At its southern end it takes on the improbable title of Calle O’Daly, named after an Irish banana merchant who settled on the island.

  • “The somewhat moist and tropical preservation conditions make the recovery of DNA improbable,” says Peter Brown, the paleoanthropologist at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the hobbit study.

  • Here is a sampling of improbable movie moments from the summer of 1999: A young man takes a sudden notion to hump an apple pie; a gargantuan crocodile inexplicably migrates from its tropical habitat to set up shop in a frigid Maine lake; a trio of doomed documentarians, being stalked in the woods by a furry witch, never stops filming and videotaping themselves even as they are supposedly jumping out of their skins with terror; the search for an Alzheimer's cure leads to the inadvertent creation of oversized mako sharks with brains so enhanced they are able to apply the principles of hydraulic engineering to their deadly advantage, to say nothing of operating commercial kitchen equipment.


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