Example Sentences

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Perhaps by now you’ve picked up on the preposterousness in this parade of terms.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025

Granting the preposterousness of the whole idea, he is genuinely nonetheless curious about what it would be like to have this kind of experience.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

But she’s also fully clued in to the preposterousness of a 24-year-old millionaire singer issuing prescriptions, and the soporific luxury of her lounges on the beach.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2021

As a novel, “Smoke” is a bizarre marvel, its narrative winding evil and preposterousness round and round.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2021

As she came in contact with life, warm, breathing vitality, an instantaneous conviction of the folly, the preposterousness of her own fears, came over her.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee