Example sentences for: ridiculous

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

  • But the producers of Chicago Hope never managed to do anything more interesting with her interestingness than cause her to aspire to leave medicine and become an astronaut, the ridiculous quest to which she devoted her last year on the series.

  • Our lawyer said we might escape Britain's ridiculous censorship laws by arguing that we are an American publication, and any seepage into Britain was purely unintentional.

  • The flavor names are ridiculous: Powerade has Mountain Blast, Jagged Ice, and Arctic Shatter.

  • Some like it: a "foxy, snotty, enjoyably trashy update," says Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly . Others find the idea of such young actors in this tale of sexual intrigue and betrayal ridiculous: "The liaisons here aren't dangerous, they're incongruous" (Jami Bernard, the Daily News ). Critics are either entranced by the youngsters' acting or find the whole concept of fresh-from-the-WB kids as Vicomte De Valmont and Marquise De Merteuil "faintly ridiculous" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (This site has links to information on all the film versions of the novel, as well as sound clips and photos.)

  • Garance Franke-Ruta's response to Herbert Stein's "Watching the Couples Go By" is amusing, but ridiculous.


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