Example sentences for: risible

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

  • One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.

  • And the idea that an oblique, hardly probable cross-reference to Rauschenberg's quilts helps Lucas on the path to greatness is risible (the jury is still out on Rauschenberg, anyway).

  • It's not risible; I wish all political theorists and politicians would read Chekhov.

  • [It's] structured in a rambling manner, often borderline risible in its dialogue."

  • Much of it is risible, yet I loved watching it--not because I thought that the emperor was wearing new clothes but because I thought he looked fine--beautiful, actually--naked.


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