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 White House may be telling some implausible stories these days.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • This may sound implausible, but the world wants plastics.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 29 May 2021
  • But this is Sunday, and these events seem worlds away, implausible.
    — Adam Nemett, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • So this is just another implausible episode of Black Mirror, which has come to life.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Recent events suggest that this is not an implausible risk.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Cheney has left open the door to someday running for president, as implausible as that may now seem with Trump support still so high.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • But easily the most implausible member of the Warriors’ core these days is someone who had spent his entire career in the hinterlands of the NBA.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • The idea that the Home Office would retroactively revoke his citizenship seems implausible, to say the least.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 July 2022
  • Within a week of the killing, Bellingcat published a piece outlining why Russia’s claims that the killer was not connected to the Russian state were implausible.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • But Mort’s strained efforts to get to know Jo, combined with the performers’ utter lack of chemistry and the contrivances of Anaya’s role, make for an awkward and implausible series of scenes.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Even ideas that seemed implausible and were subject to ridicule become orthodoxy when there is enough data.
    — Roger Dooley, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The film mostly unfolds in live time, yet that urgency and a couple of twists can't help an implausible narrative.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The schemes are implausible but that’s embedded in the show’s lighthearted approach.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • These messages sound as implausible as the notion of two 29-year-old best friends doing all their correspondence via long email.
    — Jane Hu, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
  • This is just one of many implausible moments in an otherwise decent episode.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The explanation seemed implausible: A plane had flown right into the building.
    — Time, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Perhaps Griffin has disavowed a tax break from his Harvard gift, though that’s implausible.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The movie’s mélange of genres and tones are so lazily overt that Holland can’t help but come off as a little too green, too implausible, to be the strand holding so many of the filmmakers’ whims together.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Cooke and her character, Paige, inject some life into the proceedings, but the central mystery feels forced, the twists implausible.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023

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