Example sentences for: preposterous

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

  • is preposterous," because "Watergate involved a wholesale corruption of government which extended through the FBI, the CIA and other federal agencies.

  • At first, the idea that there can be a single word in English or in any language that merits the creation of a 232-page volume—directory, rather than dictionary— devoted to it exclusively must seem preposterous.

  • Nathan Myhrvold makes the preposterous assertion that calls for a ban on cloning amount to discrimination against people based on another genetic trait.

  • At the beginning of the year he finds, or imagines, a tiny shred of second-rate love with his call girl/deer, and later on finds, or imagines, an even tinier shred of a preposterous less-than-love with his child-girlfriend.

  • So to judge America's fleeting architecture by Europe's canonical standards is preposterous.


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