How to Use implausible in a Sentence

implausible

adjective
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  • He gave an implausible excuse for showing up late for work.
  • The novel has an implausible ending.
  • She's been making implausible claims.
  • The mud built up from days of rain made that implausible.
    — Stephen Whyno, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2018
  • The White House may be telling some implausible stories these days.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The amendment lost, but received 93 yea votes in the House and 24 in the Senate—a level of support that would have been implausible not that long ago.
    — Elliott Negin, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2020
  • This may sound implausible, but the world wants plastics.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • The official count proclaimed him the winner, with an implausible 80% of the vote.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Like the tsunami stones of the past, the plaque carried a message for the future, a warning to believe in changes that might at first seem implausible.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But this is Sunday, and these events seem worlds away, implausible.
    — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • Kurt Cobain spun out, a white Bronco cut loose, and a sitcom about six friends with an implausible New York apartment hit the air.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2018
  • Doesn’t everyone get frustrated with the red herrings and the implausible twists and stalling along the way?
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2021
  • Yet there are few ways a hard Brexit could happen, and all seem implausible.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Is the concept of a non-stick-thin woman finding love that implausible?
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 27 Dec. 2020
  • Alex’s father, Jeff (Kevin Bacon), has stopped trying to get it through to Alex how implausible this all sounds.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • But people are willing to believe the implausible, or at least lend credence to it.
    — Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
  • So this is just another implausible episode of Black Mirror, which has come to life.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • Yes, the plot is contrived, and implausible, and full of masks and identity thefts, but the film aggressively owns its premise.
    — refinery29.com, 12 July 2018
  • The case is good news for helping judges ferret out the weakest and most implausible investor class actions.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 21 June 2021
  • Which is, to be fair, a not-implausible interpretation of the facts.
    — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2020
  • So the idea of the U.S. retaliating with nuclear weapons of its own seems rather implausible to me.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Some of the lawsuits give the impression of throwing everything at the wall in the hopes that something will stick, no matter how implausible.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The isolation of the disease to Wuhan that this implies is also implausible.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The plaintiffs say that based on the bullet path, Howell was crouched further down in a position that makes the defense's case implausible.
    — Matt McCall, Lake County News-Sun, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The fiscal hit is just one reason many economists find the plan implausible.
    — Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
  • The Big Ten will attempt to play nine games in nine weeks, which sounds implausible, if not impossible, based on logic.
    — Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • At the time, the media narrative made a punchline out of the brothers and their implausible alibi.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2022
  • Truth may be stranger than fiction, as the cliché holds, because the most implausible stories stand up only with evidence to back them.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • Figueroa and her roommate, Brittany Bryan, giggled at the implausible sight.
    — Allison Klein, ajc, 19 May 2018
  • Olalekan maintains a firm grip on both the many narratives and the kinetic pace of the film, all of which make for a compelling and thoughtful watch, even if some of what transpires seems implausible and too coincidental.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024

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