Example sentences for: plausible

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

  • The idea of lunar human cycles seems more plausible than a Friday the 13 th effect.

  • Nevertheless, an evolutionary affinity between Cyanobacteria ( Synechocystis ) and Actinomycetes ( Mycobacterium ) appears plausible, particularly given the presence, in these bacterial groups, of well-developed and partly similar signal transduction systems [ 27 ] . The connection between two hyperthermophilic bacteria, Aquifex and Thermotoga, also has obvious biological meaning, although, in this case, particular caution is due, given the possibility of preferential horizontal gene exchange between these organisms that inhabit similar environments.

  • On plausible deniability, see, e.g., Ranelagh, The Agency, pp. 341-345; Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA (Simon & Schuster, 1995), pp. 230-235.

  • More money and strict federal standards would make Bush's plan plausible and interesting.

  • It does seem, however, that when a structurally and functionally plausible prediction is produced, with a high confidence, by a well tested, statistically sound computational method, an incompatible prediction yielded by a new method without a clear statistical foundation is most likely to be incorrect.


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