Example sentences for: improbably

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

  • She works at a health magazine, whose strange hours screen her infidelities from an improbably credulous spouse.

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • He brought with him a devotion to punk and indie rock and a video camera that, somewhat improbably, he used to tape marketing meetings, design discussions, conversations with his fellow employees, and a visit to the plant where Columbia House actually manufactures and distributes its product.

  • In order to justify today's stratospheric share prices, profits and productivity must grow at improbably high rates for an impossibly long time.

  • The first, as many of you did, is to take the competition improbably downscale--mixing implausible amounts of sex and/or violence into the competition.


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