Example sentences for: nonsensical

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

  • For all its nonsensical trappings, the mummy narrative is serious business, because when other peoples' passionately held taboos are casually flouted it is serious business.

  • Murdoch admitted he had asked HarperCollins to drop the book but said the executives should have been forthright about it, instead of inventing nonsensical reasons.

  • Jabberwocky itself is given in The Concise Oxford Dictionary as designating nonsensical writing or speech, esp. for comic effect.

  • The around-the-world balloon race, by contrast, is a nonsensical exercise.

  • In Mr. William Brashear's Hocus Pocus [XIX, 1, 1], the nonsensical magical words from Goethe's Reineke Fuchs, nekrast negibaul geid sum manteflih dnudna mein tedachs make sense when the words are read backwards (with some anagrammatical liberties):


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