Example sentences for: outlandish

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

  • In the past when I encountered some outlandish inanity--often about taxes--I would sit down at my keyboard and write an answer.

  • A Teletubbies spokesman says 1) Tinky Winky carries a "magic bag," not a purse; 2) the magic bag "doesn't make him gay"; 3) "to think we would be putting sexual innuendo in a children's show is kind of outlandish"; and 4) Falwell is besmirching "something sweet and innocent" to advance his right-wing agenda.

  • EdTV takes off from the increasingly less outlandish idea that a cable network might, in the face of declining ratings, decide to have its cameras traipse around after an "ordinary" person 24 hours a day--a scenario somewhat different from last year's The Truman Show , in which the cameras were hidden, the universe manufactured, and the TV protagonist unwitting.

  • He was adding his two cents to a controversy in the news, and his position on asylum was hardly outlandish.

  • A sudden spike in the aggregate volume of U.S.-Moldova telephone traffic, followed by the delivery of outlandish phone bills to individuals, soon suggested the existence of a problem.


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