Example sentences for: preposterous

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

  • When Claire Bloom was 19, Charlie Chaplin recognized that her preposterous inexperience and eagerness to please made her the perfect actress to star opposite him in Limelight as Theresa, "an ideal of pre-Victorian self-immolation."

  • From this dubious premise Itell spins to his more preposterous conclusion that there "may well be a similar relationship ...

  • Courtney Love teetered in and out on preposterous stiletto heels, flaunting a strategically situated rip in her blouse (which was pretty much see-through anyhow).

  • It had a touch of skepticism regarding the subject (after all, this was The New Yorker ), but took Disney's town-building attempt seriously--except for the preposterous name, of course, although preposterous town names are hardly unknown in U.S. history--New Hope, for example, or New Harmony, which Andersen mentions, or my favorite, also in Florida, Panacea.

  • And the idea that government is [not responsible for] the social engineering that we find--which was by Hitler, by Stalin, on a smaller level is by Franklin Roosevelt and the other leaders of the century--[is preposterous].


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