Example sentences for: incredible

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

  • In its weekend edition, Le Monde carried a front-page article about "the incredible record of the South African prison system," from which 700 prisoners have escaped in the past two months alone.

  • Had the world known for certain that the incredible stories coming from the Soviet Union were true, more Jews could have been warned.

  • Such was the incredible cutting power of the Japanese sword — embellished perhaps a bit by Japanese superstition.

  • Among the more incredible explanations (as recorded by Adrian Room, A Dictionary of True Etymologies) are a derivation from ablution or luliana [ Daily Telegraph , 13 September 1968] and even from hallelujah, as prompted by a caption to a cartoon by Du Maurier in Punch [22 June 1895], which read Now we'll begin again at the Hallelujah, and please linger longer on the lu!

  • "The case, with its invasive, irrelevant discovery, with its incredible legal fees, with the way it drew in innocent bystanders and ruined their lives, is exactly typical of the American legal system," says Walter Olson, a Manhattan Institute scholar and author of The Excuse Factory .


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