Example Sentences

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Some of the book’s best advice might seem laughably obvious.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“So this notion that anyone got rid of Gail to help any client is laughably stupid on its face.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Sometimes multiple cars would have the same plates; sometimes the numbers were laughably fake: ABC1234, for instance.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

To call it hypocritical is laughably inadequate and chutzpah doesn't even begin to describe it.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2025

Making his calculations with a pencil became laughably impossible.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong